This month's Journal of Thoracic Oncology includes a landmark article, written by a multidisciplinary group of lung cancer experts that features several of the leading lung cancer pathologists in the world, that is attempting to do no less than present a new categorization of the pathology of lung cancer, focusing primarily on adenocarcinomas, but also touching on other lung cancer subgroups.

Several days ago, I had a new patient referred to me who has something I've never seen before. Though patients will occasionally ask about the risk of their lung cancer being spread by a biopsy or surgery, I've not seen and have heard of this only very, very rarely with lung cancer -- though it's not uncommon to see growth through the needle track of a biopsied mesothelioma.