stage IIIA
stage IIIA
stage IIIA
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TREATMENT BY STAGE. XXV.<br />
STAGE <strong>IIIA</strong> NSCLC. IV. Bulky <strong>IIIA</strong>. II.<br />
* exception to this approach = T4, N0 or T4, N1 (<strong>stage</strong> IIIB)<br />
disease for which preoperative chemotherapy provides<br />
enough tumor debulking to allow otherwise unresectable<br />
disease to be resected (chemotherapy may allow chest wall<br />
resection for direct extension of tumor, tracheal sleeve<br />
pneumonectomy and sleeve lobectomy for lesions near<br />
carina)