Improving Resection Rates Among African Americans With NSCLC

Usual care includes: complete staging work-up (CT/PET scan and possible mediastinoscopy), surgical consultation with a general or cardiothoracic surgeon, cardiac clearance and/or pulmonary function testing (if deemed necessary by the evaluating surgeon), surgical resection (wedge resection, lobectomy, pneumonectomy, or radiosurgery, as indicated by the size and location of the tumor), and adjuvant therapy (radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy, as determined by the intraoperative findings and pathology results).

The proposed Intervention (EPDPN) will be administered by the PNs at the intervention sites on an outpatient basis. Several defining, fundamental characteristics of the PNs will ensure consistency of the intervention delivery across the various study sites.