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The pathologist is an indispensable member of the team involved in the management of lung cancer. The prime diagnosis of the presence of a malignant tumour must be confirmed either histologically or cytologically. The further management of a patient depends on two essential items of information, the histological cell type and the assessment of the extent of the tumour spread. This may include histological confirmation of spread to mediastinal nodes or more distant metastatic sites such as liver or bone marrow.
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Lamb, D. (1984). Pathology and Classification. In: Duncan, W. (eds) Lung Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82218-6_1
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