Preface vii Guest Editors ix Introduction xiii List of abbreviations xiv 1. Epidemiology: development and perspectives 1 Georgia Hardavella and Tariq Sethi 2. Screening 12 John K. Field, Anand Devaraj, Stephen W. Duffy and David R. Baldwin 3. Tobacco control 24 Thierry Urban, Michel Underner, José Hureaux and Xavier Quantin 4. The association with COPD 38 Juan P. de-Torres and Javier J. Zulueta 5. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis 50 Carlos Robalo Cordeiro, Tiago M. Alfaro, Sara Freitas and Jessica Cemlyn-Jones 6. Histological diagnosis: recent developments 64 Gavin M. Laing, Andrea D. Chapman, Louise M. Smart and Keith M. Kerr 7. The current and future roles of genomics 79 Kwun M. Fong, Marissa Daniels, Felicia Goh, Ian A. Yang and Rayleen V. Bowman 8. Molecular pathology 95 Florian Laenger, Nicolas Dickgreber and Ulrich Lehmann 9. Adequate tissue for adequate diagnosis: what do we really need? 119 Guido M.J.M. Roemen, Axel zur Hausen and Ernst Jan M. Speel 10. Management of early stage lung cancer: a surgeon’s perspective 136 Pascal A. Thomas 11. Management of early stage lung cancer: a radiation oncologist’s 148 perspective Esther G.C. Troost, Krista C.J. Wink, Jaap D. Zindler and Dirk De Ruysscher ERS monograph Contents Lung Cancer Number 68 June 2015