Outcomes of Patients With Early and Locally Advanced Lung Cancer: Protocol for the Italian Lung Cancer Observational Study (LUCENT)

Luca Bertolaccini   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Oriana Ciani   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Marco Lucchi   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Francesco Zaraca   ⁴ , MD ;   Alessandro Bertani   ⁵ , MD ;   Roberto Crisci   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Lorenzo Spaggiari   ^{1, 7} , MD, PhD ;   Roberto LUCENT Study Group   ^{8 *}

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

² Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management (CERGAS), Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

³ Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

⁴ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Regional Hospital, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

⁵ Unit of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), Palermo, Italy

⁶ Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

⁷ Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

⁸ see Authors' Contributions, Italy

*these authors contributed equally