The landscape of care for early stage non-small cell lung cancer continues to evolve. While some of the developments do not seem as dramatic as what has occurred in advanced disease in recent years, there is a continuous improvement in our ability to diagnose disease earlier and more accurately. We have an increased understanding of the diversity of early stage disease and how to better tailor treatments to make them more tolerable without impacting efficacy. The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and the Journal of Thoracic Oncology publishes this annual update to help readers keep pace with these important developments. Experts in the care of early stage lung cancer patients have provided focused updates across multiple areas including screening, pathology, staging, surgical techniques and novel technologies, adjuvant therapy, radiotherapy, surveillance, disparities, and quality of life. The source for information includes large academic meetings, the published literature, or novel unpublished data from other international oncology assemblies.

早期非小细胞肺癌的护理领域在不断发展。尽管某些事态发展似乎不像近年来的晚期疾病那样严重，但我们更早，更准确地诊断疾病的能力不断提高。我们对早期疾病的多样性以及如何更好地调整治疗方法以使其在不影响疗效的情况下更具耐受性的认识得到了越来越多的了解。国际肺癌研究协会和《胸腔肿瘤学杂志》出版了该年度更新，以帮助读者跟上这些重要的发展。早期肺癌患者的护理专家已在多个领域提供了重点更新，包括筛查，病理学，分期，手术技术和新技术，辅助治疗，放射疗法，监视，差异和生活质量。信息来源包括大型学术会议，已出版的文献或其他国际肿瘤学大会的未出版的新颖数据。