2016
Postoperative Radiation Therapy Is Associated with Longer Overall Survival in Completely Resected Stage II and III Thymoma—An Analysis of the International Thymic Malignancies Interest Group Retrospective Database
Rimner A, Yao X, Huang J, Antonicelli A, Ahmad U, Korst RJ, Detterbeck F, Gomez DR. Postoperative Radiation Therapy Is Associated with Longer Overall Survival in Completely Resected Stage II and III Thymoma—An Analysis of the International Thymic Malignancies Interest Group Retrospective Database. Journal Of Thoracic Oncology 2016, 11: 1785-1792. PMID: 27346413, PMCID: PMC5257334, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2016.06.011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPostoperative radiation therapyStage IIOS benefitRadiation therapyUse of PORTMasaoka-Koga stage IIInternational Thymic Malignancy Interest GroupStage II thymomaOverall survival benefitPrimary end pointMultivariate Cox modelLonger overall survivalLog-rank testIndividual patient dataImproved OSParaneoplastic syndromeOverall survivalSurvival benefitOS ratesHistologic subtypePatient populationRetrospective databaseUnivariate analysisCox modelThymoma
2014
Thymic carcinoma outcomes and prognosis: Results of an international analysis
Ahmad U, Yao X, Detterbeck F, Huang J, Antonicelli A, Filosso PL, Ruffini E, Travis W, Jones DR, Zhan Y, Lucchi M, Rimner A. Thymic carcinoma outcomes and prognosis: Results of an international analysis. Journal Of Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery 2014, 149: 95-101.e2. PMID: 25524678, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.09.124.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultAgedChemotherapy, AdjuvantDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisNeoadjuvant TherapyNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNeoplasm StagingPractice Patterns, Physicians'Proportional Hazards ModelsRadiotherapy, AdjuvantRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSex FactorsThymectomyThymomaThyroid NeoplasmsTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeConceptsRecurrence-free survivalEarly Masaoka stageR0 resectionOverall survivalRadiation therapyMasaoka stageThymic carcinomaMale genderLonger recurrence-free survivalMedian overall survivalStage IV diseaseAdjuvant radiation therapyMasaoka stage IPreoperative radiation therapyPrimary outcome measureSquamous cell carcinomaPredominant histologic subtypeAdjuvant chemotherapyImproved OSInduction chemotherapyProlonged OSCumulative incidenceHistologic subtypeMultivariable analysisTreatment patterns