Patterns of Treatment and Outcomes for Definitive Therapy of Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Definitive surgical and radiation therapy (RT) treatments are evolving rapidly for stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We hypothesized that utilization of definitive therapies increased between 2000 and 2010 and that survival improved for stage I NSCLC patients over the same time period. Secondary objectives were determining trends in patterns of care and predictors of utilization. METHODS:Population-based, observational, comparative effectiveness study used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-18 data from 2000 to 2010. The main outcome measure was 2-year risk of death for stage I NSCLC. RESULTS:Between 2000 and 2010, 40,589 patients (62%) underwent surgery, 10,048 (15%) received RT, 2,130 (3%) received both surgery and RT, and 11,537 (18%) received neither surge

SUBMITTER: Kapadia NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6889065 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature