The necessity of mediastinal lymph node resection for screen-diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) manifesting as subsolid nodule

Dr. Flores and colleagues recently published an article titled “Computed tomography screening for lung cancer” in Annals of Surgery, and was presented at the annual meeting of the 16^th World Conference on Lung Cancer. Therein, they reported the results of survival differences for patients with and without mediastinal lymph node resection (MLNR) in stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) manifesting as subsolid and solid nodules. They concluded that it is not mandatory to perform MLNR when screen-diagnosed NSCLC manifests as a subsolid nodule.