[Locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer].
The objective of the treatment in stages III A and III B without pleural effusion should be both locoregional and distant disease control. We known that at least 80% of the patients had micrometastatic disease at the time of diagnosis, so that a treatment that is only local would be condemned to failure from the time it is suggested. Many clinical questions continue to exist and each step achieved is followed by a new diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma and is thus a fertile field for clinical research.
Provencio Pulla
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Servicio de Oncología Médica, Hospital Universitario Clínica Puerta de Hierro, C./San Martin de Porres 4, 28035 Madrid, Spain.
Valcárcel Sánchez
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F
D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed