Role of invasive mediastinal nodal staging in survival outcomes of patients with non-small cell lung cancer and without radiologic lymph node metastasis: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lung cancer diagnostic guidelines advocate for invasive mediastinal nodal staging (IMNS), but the survival benefits of this approach in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without radiologic evidence of lymph node metastasis (rN0) remain uncertain. We aimed to investigate the impact of IMNS in patients with rN0 NSCLC by comparing the long-term survival between patients who underwent IMNS and those who did not (non-IMNS).

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study, we included patients with NSCLC but without radiologic evidence of lymph node metastasis from the Registry for Thoracic Cancer Surgery and the clinical data warehouse at the Samsung Medical Centre, Republic of Korea between January 2, 2008 and December 31, 2016. We compared the 5-year overal

SUBMITTER: Kim HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10867420 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature