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Defining the optimal local treatment approach in stage III non-small cell lung cancer: Surgery versus concurrent chemoradiation after induction chemoimmunotherapy

Melek Yakar1*
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1 Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey
Received: 1 October 2025 | Accepted: 3 November 2025 | Published online: 17 November 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Chemoradiotherapy in the Era of Precision Medicine)
© 2025 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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The author declares no conflict of interest.
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