Bronchus Anastomosis Healing Depending on Type of Neoadjuvant Therapy.

Background: Preoperative radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy of lung cancer in patients with locally advanced disease is an option in multimodal treatment. Sleeve lobectomy has an important part in decreasing complications and sparing lung function. We present our experience in a large cohort of patients after sleeve lobectomy with or without neoadjuvant treatment and standardized assessment of bronchial anastomotic healing.

[Trimodal Therapy for Stage IIIA-B NSCLC Involving High Dose Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy. Is Surgery a Rational Option?].

Stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and its possible multimodal therapy present a challenge to the responsible oncologist, chest surgeon and radiologist. The aim of the present retrospective study was to analyse and evaluate the treatment algorithm in our hospital for patients with stage III NSCLC (intention to treat). We compared an aggressive treatment regime with primary trimodal therapy (high dose radiochemotherapy and resection), independently of "multilevel" N2 or "single level" N3 status.