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How do you counsel patients in regards to the options and risks for salvage lobectomy/wedge after SBRT?

Do you discuss this at the first consultation? Is there strong evidence to suggest that risks are significantly increased compared to upfront lobectomy/wedge?
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Thoracic Surgery · Yale School of Medicine
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For early stage lung cancer, we discuss with our patients the surgical and nonsurgical options, and provide the rationale for our recommendation. A common question is whether the patient can have surgery if the SBRT doesn't work. I think SBRT patients need to know two things relating to this questio...

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