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How do you take tumor seeding into account when staging NSCLC?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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This is a rare situation but based on the current AJCC staging, if this is in same lobe then would stage as T3 disease.

If discovered after treatment of the primary disease, we would still treat this like a localized process, as is not hematogenous spread and not like metastatic disease.

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