Impact of examined lymph node count on long-term survival of T1-2N0M0 double primary NSCLC patients after surgery: a SEER study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The relationship between examined lymph nodes (ELN) and survival has been confirmed in several single early-stage malignancies. We studied the association between the ELN count and the long-term survival of T1-2N0M0 double primary non-small cell lung cancer (DP-NSCLC) patients after surgery, based on the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database.

Methods

A total of 948 patients were identified and their independent prognostic factors were analyzed. These factors included the ELN count, which related to overall survival (OS) and the cancer-specific survival (CSS) of synchronous (n = 426) and metachronous (n = 522) T1-2N0M0 DP-NSCLC patients after surgery.

Results

X-tile analysis indicated that the cutoff value for the sum of ELNs

SUBMITTER: Jiang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7049255 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature