Francesco Facciolo

TL;DR: Although the study was terminated early, preoperative gemcitabine plus cisplatin followed by radical surgery improved survival in patients with clinical stage IIB/IIIA NSCLC.

TL;DR: Prognosis in bronchial carcinoid tumors is more related to nodal status than to histologic subtype, and in N0 and N1 patients no statistical significant difference has been found between typical and atypical subtype.

TL;DR: Outcomes in a series of patients with a pathological diagnosis of large cell neuroendocrine lung carcinoma, who underwent lung resection are retrospectively evaluated, and experience suggests that chemotherapy may improve prognosis in stage I disease.

TL;DR: En bloc resection of thechest wall and lung is the procedure of choice to obtain complete resection in lung carcinoma invading the chest wall, and survival is highly dependent on the completeness of resection, nodal involvement, and depth of chest wall invasion.

TL;DR: VATS represents the approach of choice for both diagnosis and treatment of SPNs and the probability of malignancy for SPNs increases with size of the lesion, age of the patients, history of previous cancer, and the need for thoracotomy to locate the nodule.