Article: Studies from University Hospital describe new findings in lung cancer.

"Due to recent advances in imaging, the incidence of patients presenting with bilateral lung lesions is increasing. A single contralateral lung lesion can be an isolated metastasis or a synchronous second primary lung cancer," researchers in Louvain, Belgium report (see also Blood and Marrow Transplantation).

"For the revision of the TNM in 2009, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Staging Committee proposes that patients with contralateral lung nodules remain classified as M1 disease. In this retrospective study, the survival after resection of synchronous bilateral lung cancer is evaluated. From our database of bronchial carcinoma, all ...

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