Stage IIIB

I am not aware of any surgical center in the United States where primary surgical therapy of IIIB lung cancer is advocated.

There are a few centers in Japan where such surgery is done.

Best treatment would be radiation therapy.

Chemo-radiation therapy or neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgical resection are experimental approaches currently being investigated in clinical trials. There is some early information that is encouraging.

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