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New lung cancer staging system revealed
Date:7/13/2009

s not define the process of determining a patient's stage, ie, which diagnostic tests should be used, nor does it provide recommendations on treatment.

"In addition, the selection of treatment is dependent on many factors beyond the stage grouping. Therefore, one cannot assume that treatment of a subgroup of patients should change because the new classification has placed them into a different grouping," said Dr. Detterbeck. "The stage classification system is designed to be a nomenclature tool and a tool to define prognosis, and it is an inappropriate oversimplification to use it as an algorithm to select treatment."

The new IASLC staging system was accepted by the AJCC and UICC and is scheduled to appear in the UICC staging manual in November 2009.

"There have been significant advances in the way of diagnosis and therapy for lung cancer since the last revision of the staging system," said W. Michael Alberts, MD, FCCP, Past President of the American College of Chest Physicians and Chair of the ACCP Lung Cancer Guidelines. "The old system served us well. However, the new system has been eagerly awaited and will be used in the third edition of the ACCP Lung Cancer Guidelines."


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Contact: Jennifer Stawarz
847-498-8306
American College of Chest Physicians
Source:Eurekalert

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