Assessment of the prognostic factors in patients with pulmonary carcinoid tumor: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have identified potential risk factors for pulmonary carcinoid tumors and evaluated the effect of various treatments; however, the results were not entirely consistent. We conducted a population-based study to further explore relevant prognostic issues. We extracted cases with pulmonary carcinoid tumors from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results database. Cox proportional hazard regression was utilized to identify potential significant risk factors, which helped establish a nomogram for predicting long-term survival. Survival analysis and a competing risk study were conducted to evaluate the value of different surgical approaches. There were 7057 cases included in the study. Univariate and multivariate analyses showed that age, sex, tumor size, stage, histology, su

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010747 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature