Inquiry between european thoracic surgeons and chest physicians about the mandatory examinations before operating a lung cancer

The purpose of this inquiry is to try to attain a common opinion between European Thoracic Surgeons and Chest Physicians about the examinations which are mandatory or not mandatory but useful before to put the indication to lung cancer resection. The examinations proposed are divided from functional point of view and from oncological as well as technical point of view. A questionnaire specially conceived was sent to 78 Thoracic Surgeons and Chest Physicians in Europe. Answers obtained by 52 institutions are analysed.