Invasive mediastinal staging for resected non-small cell lung cancer in a population-based cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Invasive mediastinal nodal staging is recommended before curative-intent resection in patients with non-small cell lung cancer deemed at risk for mediastinal lymph node involvement. We evaluated the use and survival effect of preoperative invasive mediastinal nodal staging in a population-based non-small cell lung cancer cohort.

Methods

We analyzed all curative-intent resections for non-small cell lung cancer from 2009 to 2018 in 11 hospitals in 4 contiguous Dartmouth Hospital Referral Regions, comparing patients who did not have invasive mediastinal nodal staging with those who did.

Results

Preoperative invasive nodal staging was used in 22% of 2916 patients, including mediastinoscopy only in 13%, minimally invasive procedures only in 6%, and both approach

SUBMITTER: Osarogiagbon RU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6754300 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature