• Thoracic surgery clinics · May 2013

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    Should all cases of lung cancer be presented at Tumor Board Conferences?

    • Marc Riquet, Pierre Mordant, Mehdi Henni, Delphine Wermert, Elizabeth Fabre-Guillevin, Aurélie Cazes, and Françoise Le Pimpec Barthes.
    • Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris-Descartes University, 20 rue Leblanc, Paris 75015, France. marc.riquet@egp.aphp.fr
    • Thorac Surg Clin. 2013 May 1; 23 (2): 123-8.

    AbstractTumor Board Conferences (TBCs) have been associated with higher adherence of staging and treatment to guidelines. The influence of TBCs on the rate of curative treatments has been established. Patients with lung nodules and tumors of unknown histology should not be presented before surgery, but every patient with malignant histology should be declared to the TBC coordinator and registered at the time of histologic confirmation. This approach allows physicians to deal rapidly with simple cases on a systematic basis, to give more attention to the most complicated situations, and to offer every patient the benefit of a multidisciplinary approach.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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