Effect of Lymph Node Assessment on Outcomes in Surgery for Limited Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines recommend surgery for limited stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC). However, there is no literature on minimum acceptable lymph node retrieval in surgery for SCLC.

Methods

The National Cancer Database was queried for adult patients undergoing lobectomy for limited stage (cT1-2N0M0) SCLC from 2004 to 2015. Patients with unknown survival, staging, or nodal assessment, and patients who received neoadjuvant therapy were excluded. The number of lymph nodes assessed was studied both as a continuous variable and as a categoric variable stratified into distribution quartiles. The primary outcome was overall survival and the secondary outcome was pathologic nodal upstaging.

Results

A total of 1051 patients met stud

SUBMITTER: Rucker AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7958968 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature