EBRO 2017

Better staging, better treatment

No PET

PET

p

Thoracotomy 78/96 (81%) 60/92 (65%) Number To Image: 5 to avoid 1 futile thoracotomy 11 to avoid 1 relapse/death <1yr curative futile 39 (41%) 39 (41%) 41 (44%) 19 (21%) 0.003

Relapse/death <1yr

19

10

51% [32–80] reduction in risk of futile thoracotomy

PLUS trial, van Tinteren Lancet 2002