Full guideline – April 2011

In March 2019 we updated and replaced this guideline with NICE guideline NG122 on lung cancer: diagnosis and management.

NICE's original guidance on diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer was published in February 2005; and subsequently updated in 2011. The guideline has undergone a further update for 2019.

This document preserves evidence reviews and committee discussions for areas of the guideline that have not been updated in 2019.

It has been colour-coded as follows:

  • Text without shading or a bar in the right hand margin indicates text from the original 2005 guideline that has not been amended by subsequent updates.
  • Text with a bar in the right hand margin indicates text updated in 2011.
  • Green shading indicates text from the 2011 update that has reviewed and added to or updated by the 2019 update.
  • Grey shading indicates text from 2005 or 2011 that has been amended but not replaced by the 2019 update.
  • Black shading indicates text from 2005 or 2011 that has been replaced by the 2019 update.

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