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A 62-year-old male smoker presents with right anterior chest pain. There is a 3 cm mass attached to the chest wall with radiographic evidence of rib erosion and positive cytology for non-small cell carcinoma. Which of the follow is/are true:
The patient is inoperable due to tumor size and chest wall involvement
Radiation therapy is the preferred initial treatment
Operative resection should be performed with en bloc removal of the tumor and adjacent chest wall as well as a mediastinal lymph node resection
Positive mediastinal nodes will have little effect on survival
The patient would be classified Stage IIIa
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