Advances in Lymph Node Metastasis and Lymph Node Dissection 
in Early Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the malignant tumor with the highest morbidity and mortality in China. Non-small cell lung cancer is the main pathological type. Lymph node metastasis is the most common and primary metastatic pathway in non-small cell lung cancer. Acknowledged as the major factor determining tumor staging and prognosis. Unfortunately, it ' s presently hard to make an accurate preoperative judgment on the lymph node metastasis of early stage non-small cell lung cancer. Consequently, there has been a long-standing controversy on lymph node sweeping for early stage non-small cell lung cancer, especially for those clinical stage I. The regularity of non-small cell lung cancer lymph node metastasis and the ways of lymph node sweeping will be reviewed in this paper. 
 DOI: 10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2019.08.07
Source: Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research