PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nichols, Emma Hitt
ED  - Decker, Roy
TI  - Invasive Mediastinal Staging is Not Necessary for Early-Stage NSCLC before SBRT
DP  - 2014 Dec 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 16--17
VI  - 14
IP  - 31
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/31/16.2.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/31/16.2.full
AB  - Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is a treatment option for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are not eligible for surgical intervention. The staging workup for patients with NSCLC receiving stereotactic SBRT requires an initial positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging. This article analyzes the use of invasive mediastinal staging methods compared to PET imaging alone in patients with NSCLC.