A 58-year-old man with a 40 pack-year smoking history presents with persistent cough and dyspnea. CT chest reveals a 3.5 cm left upper lobe mass with involvement of the lymph node station marked A in the diagram. Staging PET-CT confirms no distant metastases. Which of the following statements regarding the staging and management of this patient is most accurate?

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