Valerie W. Rusch
Thoracic surgeon who led the IASLC staging projects that define how lung cancer and mesothelioma are staged.
Overview
Valerie Rusch chaired the IASLC lymph node map and staging committees whose work underpins the seventh, eighth and ninth editions of the TNM classification for lung cancer and mesothelioma, and led surgical studies in mesothelioma and the surgical arm of the CheckMate 816 and other neoadjuvant trials. She was the first woman president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
| Title | Journal | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The IASLC lung cancer staging project: a proposal for a new international lymph node map in the forthcoming seventh edition of the TNM classification for lung cancer | Journal of Thoracic Oncology | 2009 |
| Initial analysis of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer mesothelioma database | Journal of Thoracic Oncology | 2012 |
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