Minimally invasive techniques for medically inoperable stage 1 non small cell lung cancer: Radiotherapy is still the gold standard

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Minimally invasive techniques for medically inoperable stage I non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – image‐guided microwave ablation, a promising therapy option

“…Patients requiring chest tube insertion are well and compassionately managed and come through the procedure undamaged. A 13% chest tube insertion rate in a patient population (as Yap and colleagues correctly point out), with substantial co‐morbidities and a respiratory reserve too poor to tolerate lobectomy, is considered a very acceptable figure. It is comparable with the pneumothorax and chest tube insertion rate after CT‐guided core biopsy …”