False-positivity of mediastinal lymph nodes has negative effect on survival in potentially resectable non-small cell lung cancer
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Tarih
2012
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
OBJECTIVES: It has been shown that increased metabolic activity of primary tumour has a negative effect on survival in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) staged with positron emission tomography integrated computed tomography (PET/CT). We hypothesized that an increased metabolic activity of mediastinal lymph nodes would have worse survival even if it is false. METHODS: Three hundred and twenty-eight consecutive patients with NSCLC histology were imaged with PET/CT within 90 days of surgery between September 2005 and March 2009. Patients who had neoadjuvant chemotherapy (n = 22), patients with prior history of NSCLC (n = 9) or other malignancies within 5 years (n = 11) were excluded from the study. Patients with negative mediastinoscopy underwent resection. Pathological results were revised according to the seventh tumor-node-metastasis staging system. Kaplan–Meier test was used for survival. Log-rank and Cox analyses were used for comparisons. RESULTS: A total of 286 patients (262 male; mean age: 58.5 years) were evaluated. There were 22 (6.7%) operative deaths and none of the patients were lost to follow-up. The median follow-up in the remaining 264 patients was 26 months (range, 2–61 months). Tumour size, nodal spread and stage were all strongly associated with survival from NSCLC (P < 0.001). There were 63 true-positive, 65 falsepositive (FP), 152 true-negative (TN) and six false-negative findings on mediastinal staging after PET/CT. The maximum standardized uptake value of primary tumour was significantly higher in FP patients than in TN patients (P = 0.012). After excluding pN2-positive patients, TN patients had better survival than FP patients (P = 0.006). Multivariate analysis showed that false-positivity of mediastinal lymph nodes was independently associated with worse survival (hazard ratio = 0.63; P = 0.02). There were 146 patients with pT1-4, pN0 treated with R0 surgical resection. Disease-free survival and overall survival were also significantly better for TN patients in completely resected group (P = 0.009 versus 0.016). CONCLUSIONS: We have shown that false-positivity of mediastinal lymph nodes had yielded worse survival in surgically staged or resected NSCLC patients staged with PET/CT. This result may help to allocate patients with potentially poor prognosis for considered additional therapy.
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Non-small cell lung cancer, PET/CT, Mediastinal staging, False-positivity, Survival
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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
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41
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İskender, İ., Kadıoğlu, S. Z., Coşgun, T., Kapıcıbaşı, H. O., Sağıroğlu, G., Koşar, A. ve Kir, A. (2012). False-positivity of mediastinal lymph nodes has negative effect on survival in potentially resectable non-small cell lung cancer. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 41, s. 874-879.
