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Purpose: One of the most difficult steps of the three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) is to define the clinical target volume (CTV) according to the degree of local microscopic extension (ME). In this study, we tried to quantify this ME in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Material and Methods: Seventy NSCLC surgical resection specimens for which the border between tumor and adjacent lung...