What are all the aditional investigations,for a patient who is found to be a non small cell lung cancer?

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Once the cancer is biopsy proven,most patients will undergo a PET scan and a bone scan.The pet will show if the cancer has spread to surrounding lymph nodes much earlier than a CT or MRI. The bone scan will look for the spread of cancer to bones or other areas.Treatment can be surgery,radiation and chemo or a combination of the three. Sometimes radiation is done first,then surgery or surgery then radiation and chemo.Survival of course depends on the stage.Stage 1=45-50%,stage2 24-26%,stage 3 5-8% stage 41-2% 5 -year survival.

bronchoscopy - inspection from the inside using a device guided into the lungs through the throat
mediastinoscopy - inspection of the outside of the lungs using a device fed through an incision in the upper chest

I'm not completely sure about the spellings, my late wife had both of these procedures

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