title: Surgical Treatment of Lung Cancer.
abstract: In this chapter, we discuss the preoperative evaluation that is necessary prior to surgical resection, stage-specific surgical management of lung cancer, and the procedural steps as well as the indications to a variety of surgical approaches to lung resection.
authors.affiliation: Thoracic surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Osita I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Onugha
authors.affiliation: Thoracic surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. JaymoonLee@mednet.ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Jay M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Lung resection; Mediastinal staging; Metachronous lung cancer; Non-small-cell lung cancer; Oligometastatic disease; Small-cell lung cancer; Surgery; Synchronous lung cancer