Abstract
It is intuitive that a sufficiently thorough assessment of lymph nodes is a crucial aspect of quality cancer surgery. For many years, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer quality metric was based on retrieving 10 lymph nodes from anywhere in the chest during lung cancer resection. Udelsman and colleagues1 interrogated The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database to examine the relationship between adherence to this quality metric and hospital lobectomy volume.
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