Reply regarding the European Respiratory Society and European Society of Thoracic Surgeons clinical practice guideline on fitness for curative intent treatment of lung cancer

Alessandro Brunelli; Georgia Hardavella; Rudolf M. Huber; Thierry Berghmans; Armin Frille; Maria Rodriguez; Ilona Tietzova; Lieven Depypere; Riccardo Asteggiano; Tim Batchelor; Adrien Costantini; Dirk De Ruysscher; Corinne Faivre-Finn; Mark Ferguson; Daniel Langer; Nandor Marczin; Nuria Novoa; Cecilia Pompili; Janette Rawlinson; Annemiek Snoeckx; Wouter H. van Geffen; Clare Williams; Torsten Gerriet Blum

doi:10.1183/13993003.02601-2025

Reply regarding the European Respiratory Society and European Society of Thoracic Surgeons clinical practice guideline on fitness for curative intent treatment of lung cancer

Alessandro Brunelli^*
, Georgia Hardavella
, Rudolf M. Huber
, Thierry Berghmans
, Armin Frille
, Maria Rodriguez
, Ilona Tietzova
, Lieven Depypere
, Riccardo Asteggiano
, Tim Batchelor
, Adrien Costantini
, Dirk De Ruysscher
, Corinne Faivre-Finn
, Mark Ferguson
, Daniel Langer
, Nandor Marczin
, Nuria Novoa
, Cecilia Pompili
, Janette Rawlinson
, Annemiek Snoeckx

Wouter H. van Geffen, Clare Williams, Torsten Gerriet Blum

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Article number	2502601
Number of pages	3
Journal	European Respiratory Journal
Volume	67
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02601-2025
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2026

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Brunelli, A., Hardavella, G., Huber, R. M., Berghmans, T., Frille, A., Rodriguez, M., Tietzova, I., Depypere, L., Asteggiano, R., Batchelor, T., Costantini, A., De Ruysscher, D., Faivre-Finn, C., Ferguson, M., Langer, D., Marczin, N., Novoa, N., Pompili, C., Rawlinson, J., ... Blum, T. G. (2026). Reply regarding the European Respiratory Society and European Society of Thoracic Surgeons clinical practice guideline on fitness for curative intent treatment of lung cancer. European Respiratory Journal, 67(4), Article 2502601. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02601-2025

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Reply regarding the European Respiratory Society and European Society of Thoracic Surgeons clinical practice guideline on fitness for curative intent treatment of lung cancer. / Brunelli, Alessandro; Hardavella, Georgia; Huber, Rudolf M. et al.
In: European Respiratory Journal, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2502601, 01.04.2026.

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