TNM Staging, which has recently been revised, remains an important guide to treatment and prognosis of lung cancer. In this article, we propose a simple chart that can be used as a quick reference ...

Doctors stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) according to how far it has progressed. Stages range from occult (or hidden) cancer to stage 4 cancer, in which multiple organs may be affected.

Stage 4 cancer means cancer cells have spread to distant tissue or organs. The relative 5-year survival rate for a person receiving a diagnosis of stage 4 small cell lung cancer (SCLS) is 3%, and ...

More importantly, we utilized CT imaging obtained for initial cancer staging ... entering lung cancer treatment who underwent chest CT. Their CT scans underwent retrospective chart review for ...