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GARCIA RODRIGUEZ, Miguel Emilio. Staging and mediastinal assessment of lung cancer. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2010, vol.49, n.4, pp. 82-93. ISSN 1561-2945.

The lung cancer is considered the most lethal of neoplasias both in men and women and it is the highest figure of all death by colon, prostate and breast deaths. At diagnosis more than the 40% of patients have a locally advanced disease with scarce possibilities of cure and the 5-years survival is hardly of a 15%. Disease's staging as well as the mediastinal assessment is crucial to a proper diagnosis, to establish prognoses and the carry out researches leading to a appropriate behavior in these cases. The objective of present paper was to update on this subject authors made search in some databases in English language: Pubmed, Medline and Ebsco, using lung cancer staging, mediastinal lymphonode excision and lung carcinoma as key words.

Palavras-chave : Lung cancer; staging; mediastinal assessment.

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