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
2015
Evaluating the fate of patients who undergo resections of very large, node-negative lung cancers using the National Cancer DataBase
Liu J, Hancock JG, Moreno AC, Wang Z, Boffa DJ, Detterbeck FC, Kim AW. Evaluating the fate of patients who undergo resections of very large, node-negative lung cancers using the National Cancer DataBase. European Journal Of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 2015, 49: 596-601. PMID: 25890936, DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezv139.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdenocarcinomaAdultAgedAged, 80 and overCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungCarcinoma, Squamous CellChemoradiotherapy, AdjuvantDatabases, FactualFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansLung NeoplasmsLymph NodesMaleMiddle AgedNeoadjuvant TherapyNeoplasm StagingPneumonectomyRetrospective StudiesSurvival AnalysisTreatment OutcomeTumor BurdenUnited StatesConceptsPostoperative radiation therapyNational Cancer DatabaseNeoadjuvant chemoradiation therapyAdjuvant chemoradiation therapyChemoradiation therapyAdjuvant chemotherapyOverall survivalSurgical therapyLung cancerCancer DatabaseNode-negative lung cancerImproved OS relativeLymph node involvementKaplan-Meier methodCell lung cancerCox regression modelFate of patientsLog-rank testDifferent treatment modalitiesOS relativeNode involvementMetastatic diseaseSurgical resectionLymph nodesOS rates