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Letter Comment Epublish

PubMed: 41991213 DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02601-2025

Reply regarding the European Respiratory Society and European Society of Thoracic Surgeons clinical practice guideline on fitness for curative intent treatment of lung cancer.

Eur Respir J 67(4)

Authors: Alessandro Brunelli, Georgia Hardavella, Rudolf M Huber, Thierry Berghmans, Armin Frille, Maria Rodriguez, Ilona Tietzova, Lieven Depypere, Riccardo Asteggiano, Tim Batchelor, Adrien Costantini, Dirk De Ruysscher, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Mark Ferguson, Daniel Langer, Nandor Marczin, Nuria Novoa, Cecilia Pompili, Janette Rawlinson, Annemiek Snoeckx, Wouter H van Geffen, Clare Williams, Torsten Gerriet Blum

Affiliations

  • Department of Thoracic Surgery, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
  • 4th-9th Department of Respiratory Medicine, "Sotiria" Athens' Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece.
  • Division of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Oncology, Department of Medicine V, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, German Centre for Lung Research (DZL CPC-M), Munich, Germany.
  • Thoracic Oncology Functional Unit, Institut Jules Bordet, Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
  • Thoracic Surgery Department, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid, Spain.
  • Cancer Center Clinica Universidad de Navarra (CCUN), Pamplona, Spain.
  • 1st Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, General University Hospital in Prague and First Faculty of Medicine, Charles 1 University, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
  • Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
  • LARC - Laboratorio Analisi e Ricerca Clinica, Turin, Italy.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK.
  • Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Oncology Department, Hôpital Ambroise Pare Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
  • GROW- Research Institute for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
  • Department of Radiation Oncology, Maastro, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
  • Department of Radiotherapy, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Clinical Oncology, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
  • Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  • Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • KU Leuven, Faculty of Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Research Group for Rehabilitation in Internal Disorders, Leuven, Belgium.
  • Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Brompton Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • Division of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Semmelweis University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
  • University of Hull, Hull, UK.
  • Lung Cancer Patient Advisory Group, European Lung Foundation, Sheffield, UK.
  • British Thoracic Oncology Group Steering Committee, Leicester, UK.
  • Department of Radiology, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
  • European Lung Foundation, Sheffield, UK.
  • Lungenklinik Heckeshorn, Helios Klinikum Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany.
  • Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

MeSH

Lung, Respiration, Neoplasms, Lung Neoplasms, Therapeutics, Surgeons