title: Counterpoint: Despite staging inaccuracies, patients with non-small cell lung cancer are best served by having integrated positron emission tomography/computed tomography before therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. robert.cerfolio@ccc.uab.edu
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Cerfolio
mesh_terms: D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed