GuidelineThe European respiratory journal2025
European Respiratory Society and European Society of Thoracic Surgeons clinical practice guideline on fitness for curative intent treatment of lung cancer.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Outcomes of combined lung cancer resection and lung volume reduction surgery in adults with severe emphysema; a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Pooled it
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- Vietnamese expert consensus on the diagnosis and multidisciplinary management of resectable non-small cell lung cancer.Translational lung cancer research · 2026Review
- Diagnosis and selection of surgical approaches for synchronous multiple primary lung cancer: a narrative review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Review
- External validation of the eurolung risk model for morbidity using an institutional database on minimally invasive major lung resections.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- Rethinking Age Limits for Robotic Lung Cancer Resection: Contemporary Short-Term Outcomes in Octogenarians.Cancers · 2026Article
- Lung Cancer Survivorship: Challenges and Care Needs.Cancers · 2026Review
- Prehabilitation and continuous perioperative rehabilitation for patients undergoing lung resection for non-small cell lung cancer: a structured narrative review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Review
- Nuances of perioperative lung isolation and airway management.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Review
- Cardiac Rehabilitation-Current Paradigms and Challenges Across the Cardiovascular Continuum.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for lung cancer patients with concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Elderly Patients with Cardiopulmonary Comorbidities: Safety and Clinical Feasibility.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Dyspnea and cough trajectories in older adults (aged 60-80 years) after lung cancer surgery: a 6-month longitudinal study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
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- Assessment of Physical Activity During Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer: Study Protocol of the APART-LUNG Study.Clinics and practice · 2026Article
- Comment on: European Respiratory Society and European Society of Thoracic Surgeons clinical practice guideline on fitness for curative intent treatment of lung cancer.The European respiratory journal · 2026Article
- ERS Congress 2025: highlights from the Thoracic Oncology Assembly.ERJ open research · 2026Article
- FOXC1 drives lung cancer metastasis and functions as a target for AI-enabled anti-metastatic drug discovery.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- Preoperative Six-Minute Walking Distance as a Predictor of Postoperative Complications in Patients Undergoing Lobectomy for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.Advances in respiratory medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
A multidisciplinary panel of lung cancer experts with a special interest in functional evaluation of lung cancer patients, and lung cancer patient representatives, has been facilitated by the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the European Respiratory Society to provide healthcare professionals with practical and up-to-date recommendations for the assessment of patients' fitness for curative intent treatments for lung cancer. The panel formulated four PICO (population, intervention, comparison and outcomes) questions and seven complementary narrative questions. Both types of questions were assigned to groups of at least two experts. A medical librarian conducted the literature searches, and the authors selected relevant studies based on predefined inclusion criteria. Risk of bias was assessed using the QUIPS (Quality in Prognosis Studies) tool. Data were summarised and the certainty of evidence was assessed with GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations) and the Evidence to Decisions framework was used to formulate recommendations. A series of multidisciplinary recommendations was formulated about the utilisation of pulmonary function tests, split lung function values, exercise tests, cardiologic testing, and the role of prehabilitation, sublobar resections, risk scores and comorbidities in selecting patients for curative intent treatment.
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