Development and Validation of Non-Invasive Monitoring Techniques for Postoperative Recurrence and Novel Adjuvant Therapeutic Strategies in Lung Cancer
The goal of this study is to develop new techniques for minimal residual disease(MRD) monitoring and to confirm the efficacy and safety of MRD-guided postoperative management for early stage non-small cell lung cancer. The main questions this study aims to answer are: * How to develop multi-omics-based high-sensitivity detection methods to accurately capture MRD and monitor postoperative recurrence in lung cancer? * Is adaptive treatment guided by ctDNA-MRD for lung cancer patients superior to traditional clinical management and effectively improves survival? * Do heterogeneous patient populations (grouped by stages, histopathological subtypes, driver mutations, and treatment histories) show differences in effects under ctDNA-MRD guided postoperative management strategies?
• Non-small cell lung cancer with stage IA-IIIA (8th edition TNM classification) planning to undergo curative surgery or to undergo neoadjuvant therapy
• Solid nodules \>1 cm or ground-glass nodules \>1.5 cm on imaging
• No history of malignancies other than non-small cell lung cancer in the past 5 years
• Specimens are well preserved and imaging documents are accessible.