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Medicine has become highly specialized so that thoracic oncology is not a subspecialty of medical oncology and thoracic surgery. The field of thoracic oncology is a specialized area within oncology which is rapidly evolving making it difficult to keep comprehensive textbooks up to date. This thoracic oncology textbook has recruited international experts to write concise focused sections about their area of specialization. Comprehensive discussions about the basics of thoracic oncology and each specific tumor are discussed in detail in terms of biology, presentation, staging, pathology, treatment including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy as well as targeted/gene therapies and their complications. This is the only concise comprehensive textbook on the subject that includes all chest malignancies.