Abstract
Background: Over the past several decades, there has been an apparent improvement in survival of patients with stage IIIA-N2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Positron emission tomography (PET)-scanning for NSCLC staging/restaging was approved by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2001. We sought to determine whether this survival improvement was due to more sensitive staging-modalities and/or an evolution in surgical practice.
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