title: Open lobectomy for patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer.
abstract: Until additional multi-institutional, randomized, controlled trials provide evidence to the contrary, open lobectomy with mediastinal lymphadenectomy should be considered the gold standard for treating patients with stage I NSCLC with sufficient cardiopulmonary reserve, including older patients. It is the operation with which alternative pulmonary resections, including video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy and sublobar resection, should be compared. In treating stage I NSCLC patients, sublobar resection should be reserved for patients with inadequate physiologic reserve to tolerate lobectomy and for those enrolled in clinical trials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, MMC 207, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. groth015@umn.edu
authors.forename: Shawn S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Groth
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Maddaus
mesh_terms: D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology