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How would you manage lung adenocarcinoma in a patient with an index lesion requiring treatment, who has additional slowly evolving GGOs/subsolid nodules?

How do you surveil or decide to biopsy and treat these additional lesions? Are there certain size, growth rate, or imaging criteria that are useful?
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Radiation Oncology · Cleveland Clinic
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In our institution, when dealing with the patient who has multiple GGOs, treatment is usually initiated when serial CT imaging shows growth AND development of solid features in a given lesion. We attempt to biopsy if not medically contraindicated and do formal staging including PET and EBUS staging,...

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