The Tsuguo Naruke award for the best surgery paper at the 13th
World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) was given to the paper
titled ”Objective review of surgeon reported lymph node dissection
after resection of lung cancer in a US metropolitan area” presented
by Drs. Mathew Ninan, James T. Wu, Jeffrey W. Allen, Aamer Farooq,
Kemp Kernstine and Raymond U. Osarogiagbon.

This paper was one of four presented by researchers from the University
of Tennessee Cancer Institute. Dr. Ninan presented this paper as the
Tsuguo Naruke lecture at the 13th World Conference on August 3, 2009.
The WCLC is the world’s most prestigious lung cancer conference,
run under the auspices of the International Association for the Study of
Lung Cancer (IASLC).