Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the western world. Unfortunately, lung cancer is usually recognised late in its natural history. The most important risk factor is tobacco smoking. An abnormal chest radiograph is often the first line of ...

Approximately one out of 500 chest radiographs shows the incidental finding of a solitary pulmonary nodule and almost one half of these pulmonary lesions are caused by a tumor. Unfortunately, only 2% to 5% of all lung tumors are of benign origin, e. g. ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in men and the second leading cause in women. Smoking cessation is the most effective measure to prevent development of lung cancer. Early detection trials with chest x-ray and sputum cytology ...

Incidentally found solitary pulmonary nodules (SPN) are increasing due to liberal use of high resolution CT scans. SPNs are defined as densities up to 3cm without associated enlarged lymph nodes. Morphologic patterns of the SPN in CT or dynamic changes in ...

Malignant pleural mesothelioma continues to be a clinical challenge and its incidence will continue to increase worldwide. Once diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma, patients nearly invariably die of the disease. While the benefit of chemotherapy for ...

Minimal invasive surgical procedures, also known as keyhole surgery, have gained in importance in the last years and have become the standard of care in experienced hands for most surgical procedures. Despite initial concerns with respect to the ...

Local advanced NSCLC are not rare and consist of a heterogeneous group of diseases. Surgery can be offered to high selected patients. In most of the cases, the therapy concept is multidisciplinary, combining surgery with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or ...

Radiotherapy is an important and well integrated part in modern treatment concepts for cancer of the lung and pleura. Thanks to technical progress in the last years radiotherapy has managed to prove its role in all stages of lung cancers and has opened a ...

The standard care for treatment of patients in good general conditions with stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is surgical resection by lobectomy and radical mediastinal lympadenectomy. Promising alternative treatments have been developed for high ...

Lung Cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with nearly 1.4 million deaths each year. There has been an overall decrease in the incidence of lung cancer in men, although in women this trend has only been noted very recently in ...