The lung adenocarcinoma guidelines: what to be considered by surgeons

Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of primary lung cancer, accounting for almost half of these tumors. Although advances have taken place in oncology, molecular biology, pathology, radiology, and surgery of lung adenocarcinoma during the past few decades, the histologic subclassification of this type of cancer has remained difficult because of the its heterogenous nature. In this context, in 2011 the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) (1,2), have proposed a new subclassification of lung adenocarcinomas