Thoracic disorders are common and account for a large proportion of disease-related morbidity and mortality in patients throughout the world. Multimo-dality imaging, predominantly with positron emission tomography (PET), computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, plays a central role in the diagnosis, prognosis assessment, pretreatment planning, response assessment, and surveillance assessment of patients with such conditions. As such, in this issue of PET Clinics, we provide a series of state-of-the-art articles regarding the application of multimodality imaging to a wide variety of common thoracic disease conditions.A multimodality review of lung cancer staging (based on the new 7th edition of the AJCC-UICC staging system) is provided, followed by review of lung cancer posttreatment assessment.
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