For early stage NSCLC, the historic standard of care is a lobectomy.  But the reality is that with the median age of patients with new lung cancer a little over 70 and many patients quite sick from their lung cancer, COPD, and/or other medical problems, not every patient is a great candidate for surgery.

Following the excellent podcast by Dr. Rogerio Lilenbaum, lung cancer expert and now Chair of Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston, on Considerations and Challenges of Treating Elderly Patients with Lung Cancer, he fielded questions from me and the folks in the live audience who attended. Here's that question and answer session, provided in audio and with the associated transcript. There isn't really any video/figures for this one.

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Here's the presentation by my friend and colleague Dr. Rogerio Lilenbaum, a great medical oncologist now serving as Director of Hematology/Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in South Florida (Weston, FL).