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Lung cancer remains to be the leading cause of cancer death. More than half of patients with lung cancer present with advanced disease requiring systemic therapy. Remarkable advances of systemic therapy approaches have been made for patients with advanced lung cancer in the past decade, first with molecular targeting therapy that can specifically target genomic driver mutations of the tumor, and more recently with immune-checkpoint inhibitors that activate host T cell immune response against tumor. The strategies for radiographic tumor response evaluations for lung cancer have also evolved in parallel with the advances of treatment approaches for the disease. This chapter will discuss (1) recent advances of therapeutic approaches for lung cancer, (2) imaging for treatment monitoring for lung cancer in the era of precision cancer therapy, and (3) treatment monitoring of thoracic malignancies other than lung cancer, focusing on thymic tumors and malignant pleural mesothelioma.
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Nishino, M. (2020). Therapy Response Imaging in Thoracic Malignancy. In: Nishino, M. (eds) Therapy Response Imaging in Oncology. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31171-1_6
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