Tumor size as a predictor for prognosis of patients with surgical IIIA-N2 non-small cell lung cancer after surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 8^th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for lung cancer made major revisions to T staging, especially the size division of stage II/III patients. However, the value of tumor size in the postoperative prognosis of IIIA-N2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is seldom mentioned, and survival data of such patients should be re-evaluated according to the 8^th edition staging system.

Methods

Patients with IIIA-N2 NSCLC after surgery were identified in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (n=4,128). All patients were stratified according to tumor size, 5-year overall survival (OS) was then compared. Cox regression analysis was used to determine the value of size to discriminate patients with progno

SUBMITTER: Zhang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8339790 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature