Lung Cancer Staging

After a lung cancer is diagnosed, describing the extent of lung cancer spread (staging) is crucial to establishing prognosis and guiding treatment planning. Learn how lung cancers are staged with medical imaging, and what you can provide in your interpretation to make staging more accurate and efficient.

00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - Treatment: Surgery
03:16 - Treatment: Radiation
03:50 - Treatment: Chemotherapy
04:27 - Treatment: Targeted Therapy
05:10 - Treatment: Immunotherapy
06:04 - Staging Small Cell Lung Cancer
07:49 - Staging Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
12:11 - Classifying Tumor Invasion/Growth on CT
17:28 - Classifying Regional Lymph Node Spread on CT
20:48 - Classifying Distant Metastasis on CT
23:45 - cTNM vs. pTNM Stage