Mediastinal Staging in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Saying Goodbye to Mediastinoscopy
Dunne E, Fick C, Jones D. Mediastinal Staging in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Saying Goodbye to Mediastinoscopy. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2023, 41: 3785-3790. PMID: 37267507, PMCID: PMC10419653, DOI: 10.1200/jco.23.00867.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMediastinal lymph nodesCell lung cancerConfirmatory mediastinoscopyFine-needle aspirationPositron emission tomographyLymph nodesNodal metastasisEBUS-FNALung cancerEndobronchial ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspirationOncology Grand Rounds seriesNegative findingsUltrasound-guided fine-needle aspirationThoracic Surgeons guidelinesRandomized noninferiority trialStandard of careTumor genomic analysisOwn clinical practiceResectable NSCLCN1 diseaseNodal diseaseMediastinal stagingAccurate stagingForceps biopsySurgeons guidelines