All patients ≥ 18 years of age undergoing consideration of surgical resection, including lobar resections, sublobar resections, and pneumonectomies, for primary lung cancer will be eligible.
Patients with previously resected disease and/or previous radiation therapy will be considered on a case by case basis.
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Patients with active infection or pneumonia which may impact exosome makeup
Additionally, if at the discretion of the operating surgeon, obtaining bronchial washings would lead to undue morbidity, the patient would be excluded and replaced
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