2018
Survival Rates after Thermal Ablation versus Stereotactic Radiation Therapy for Stage 1 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A National Cancer Database Study.
Uhlig J, Ludwig JM, Goldberg SB, Chiang A, Blasberg JD, Kim HS. Survival Rates after Thermal Ablation versus Stereotactic Radiation Therapy for Stage 1 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A National Cancer Database Study. Radiology 2018, 289: 862-870. PMID: 30226453, DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2018180979.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerStage 1 non-small cell lung cancerStereotactic radiation therapyCell lung cancerOverall survivalLung cancerThermal ablationRadiation therapySurvival ratePropensity score-matched cohortUnplanned hospital readmission ratesNational Cancer DatabaseUnplanned hospital readmissionOverall survival rateHospital readmission ratesSmaller tumor sizeMore comorbiditiesReadmission ratesHospital readmissionRetrospective studyTumor sizePotential confoundersCancer DatabasePrimary treatmentPatients
2016
Timing of Surgery after Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in Locally Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer
Gao SJ, Corso CD, Wang EH, Blasberg JD, Detterbeck FC, Boffa DJ, Decker RH, Kim AW. Timing of Surgery after Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in Locally Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer. Journal Of Thoracic Oncology 2016, 12: 314-322. PMID: 27720827, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2016.09.122.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdenocarcinomaCarcinoma, Large CellCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungCarcinoma, Squamous CellChemoradiotherapy, AdjuvantCombined Modality TherapyFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansLung NeoplasmsMaleMiddle AgedNeoadjuvant TherapyNeoplasm StagingPneumonectomyPrognosisRetrospective StudiesSurvival RateTime FactorsConceptsNational Cancer Data BaseNeoadjuvant chemoradiationTiming of surgeryOverall survivalAdvanced non-small cell lung cancerNon-small cell lung cancerStage IIIA-N2 NSCLCStage IIIA NSCLCKaplan-Meier methodOverall survival rateSubset of patientsCell lung cancerLog-rank testMultivariate survival analysisProportional hazards modelIIIA NSCLCN2 NSCLCNeoadjuvant therapyTrimodality therapySurgical resectionClinical stageRetrospective studyLung cancerHazards modelSurvival rate