2019
Digital Inference of Immune Microenvironment Reveals Low-Risk Subtype of Early Lung Adenocarcinoma
Kurbatov V, Balayev A, Saffarzadeh A, Heller DR, Boffa DJ, Blasberg JD, Lu J, Khan SA. Digital Inference of Immune Microenvironment Reveals Low-Risk Subtype of Early Lung Adenocarcinoma. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2019, 109: 343-349. PMID: 31568747, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.08.050.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdenocarcinoma of LungAdultAgedCohort StudiesDatabases, FactualDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleHumansImmunotherapyKaplan-Meier EstimateLung NeoplasmsMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm StagingPneumonectomyPrognosisProportional Hazards ModelsRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentSurvival AnalysisTumor MicroenvironmentConceptsTumor immune microenvironmentImmune microenvironmentLung adenocarcinomaOverall survivalRisk groupsMast cellsCox proportional hazard modelingEarly-stage lung adenocarcinomaLow-risk subtypesKaplan-Meier analysisPathological staging systemProportional hazard modelingImproved clinical outcomesCancer immune microenvironmentImmune cell typesEarly lung adenocarcinomaActivation stateClinical outcomesValidation cohortMacrophage contentStaging systemMultivariable modelCIBERSORT analysisPatientsClinical decision
2018
Lack of correlation between short- and long-term performance after lung cancer surgery
Fernandez FG, Kosinski AS, Tong BC, Furnary AP, Feng L, Onaitis M, Boffa D, Wright CD, Cowper P, Jacobs JP, Habib RH, Putnam JB. Lack of correlation between short- and long-term performance after lung cancer surgery. Journal Of Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery 2018, 157: 1633-1643.e3. PMID: 30635179, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.09.141.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLung cancer surgeryStandardized incidence ratiosCancer surgeryLong-term survivalPerioperative morbidityIncidence ratiosPathologic stage I lung cancerStage I lung cancerThoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery DatabaseI lung cancerPerioperative major morbidityGeneral Thoracic Surgery DatabaseLong-term time pointsSeparate multivariable modelsSafety of surgeryThoracic Surgery DatabaseMajor morbidityOncologic efficacyLung cancerSurgery DatabaseMultivariable modelStudy populationSurgeryMorbidityTime points