Clinical benefit of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for the avoidance of pneumonectomy; assessment in 12 consecutive centrally located non-small cell lung cancers

Background Considering that pneumonectomy itself is a disease, avoidance of pneumonectomy needs to be deliberated. Herein, we evaluated the role of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for avoidance of pneumonectomy in patients with centrally located locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer.