Akhurst Tim
Nuclear Medicine Service, Cancer Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
PET Clin. 2018 Jan;13(1):1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cpet.2017.09.004. Epub 2017 Oct 26.
Staging of lung cancer serves 2 purposes; it attempts to classify patients into groups where particular treatments are appropriate and defines those groups based on expected prognosis. The eighth edition of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer staging system deals with the issues raised by screening with fine cut computed tomography. Each phase of staging is a legitimate dataset on its own. Molecular profiling of lung cancer has led to the development of an increasing number of novel agents to treat systemic disease. Prognosis is increasingly determined by genetic susceptibility of the specific cancer.
它试图将患者分类到适合特定治疗的组中，并根据预期预后定义这些组。国际肺癌研究协会分期系统的第八版涉及了薄层计算机断层扫描筛查所引发的问题。分期的每个阶段本身都是一个合理的数据集。肺癌的分子谱分析已促使越来越多的新型药物用于治疗全身性疾病。预后越来越多地由特定癌症的遗传易感性决定。
