Overview
Participants will complete questionnaires before surgery, between 2 to 4 weeks after surgery, and 6 months after surgery.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥18 years
- Clinical Stage I with suspected NSCLC, classified preoperatively based on the AJCC TNM staging manual, 9th edition o Note: Tissue diagnosis of NSCLC is not required before enrollment. A pathologic diagnosis of NSCLC may be confirmed preoperatively with biopsy, intraoperatively with frozen section, or postoperatively on final pathology
Exclusion Criteria:
- Actively receiving lung cancer treatment or a history of lung cancer in the previous 5 years
- History of chemotherapy or radiation therapy for a previous lung cancer
- Synchronous secondary cancer in the lung or elsewhere in the body at the time of surgery
- Carcinoid tumors
- History of other malignancies within the past 3 years, with the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer, superficial bladder cancer, and carcinoma in situ of the cervix
- Actively receiving treatment for other malignancies
- Cases of lobectomy in conjunction with segmentectomy from another lobe and ≥2 segmentectomies from different lobes either en bloc or separate will be excluded from the primary analysis.
- Multi-segmental resection from the same lobe is not a criterion for exclusion.
