… Articles were included or excluded based on pre-specified eligibility criteria for each
clinical question (supplementary material: Appendix D). Each reviewer screened abstracts …

Tuberculosis (TB) is still a major public health concern, mostly affecting resource-constrained
settings and marginalized populations. The fight against the disease is hindered by the …

The IASLC Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee has collected a new database of
94,708 cases donated from 35 sources in 16 countries around the globe. This has now been …

The widely accepted and still increasing use of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in
pleuro-pulmonary pathology imposes the need to deal with two major pitfalls: the first is to …

Bronchiectasis in adults is a chronic disorder associated with poor quality of life and frequent
exacerbations in many patients. There have been no previous international guidelines. The …

Introduction Revisions to the TNM stage classifications for lung cancer, informed by the
international database (N = 94,708) of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (…

Introduction Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is commonly classified as either limited or extensive,
but the Union for International Cancer Control TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours …

Introduction Stage classification provides a consistent language to describe the anatomic
extent of disease and is therefore a critical tool in caring for patients. The Staging and …

The International Standards for Tuberculosis Care define the essential level of care for
managing patients who have or are presumed to have tuberculosis, or are at increased risk of …

We detail the sensitivity of the proposed liquid xenon DARWIN observatory to solar neutrinos
via elastic electron scattering. We find that DARWIN will have the potential to measure the …