Staging and Multidisciplinary Management of Patients with Early-Stage Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Appropriate staging of patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer should include CT and PET imaging. In addition, brain imaging and invasive mediastinal staging should be performed where clinically indicated. (I, B-R)

For medically operable patients with oncologically resectable stage III NSCLC with N2 disease for whom surgery is planned, preoperative systemic therapy without radiotherapy is recommended. For those patients with superior sulcus tumors and no evidence of N2 disease, neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy is preferred. (IIa, B-NR)