Surgery for local and locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Abstract

Background: Surgical resection (usually lobectomy) is considered the treatment of choice for many individuals with early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However much of the evidence is observational. Objectives: To determine whether, in patients with early stage NSCLC, surgical resection of cancer improves disease-specific and all-cause mortality compared with no treatment, radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Search methods: For this update we ran a new search in October 2009, using the following search strategy designed in the original review: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (accessed through The Cochrane Library, 2009, Issue 3), MEDLINE (accessed through PubMed..