Table 7.

Postoperative Quality Measures Specific to Clinical Stage IIIA (N2-N3, M0) NSCLC

Postoperative Measures
Category	Quality Metric	Recommended By	Evidence grade
Adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy	Concurrent combination platinum-based chemotherapy and radiotherapy, tailored to performance, nodal status, and completeness of resection	ACCP	1A-2C
		BTS
		NCCN
Positive margins (R1 and R2)	No re-resection. Give planned adjuvant chemoradiotherapy	NCCN	2A

American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), British Thoracic Society (BTS), National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN).

Data from Refs^{20, 21, 61}