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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)

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