Background: Growing evidence suggests that sublobar resections offer more favorable outcomes than lobectomy in early-stage lung cancer surgery. However, a percentage of cases that cannot be ignored develops disease recurrence irrespective of the surgery performed with curative intent. The goal of this work is thus to compare different surgical approaches, namely, lobectomy and segmentectomy (typical and atypical) to derive prognostic and predictive markers.
Patients And Methods: Here we analyzed a cohort of 153 NSCLC patients in clinical stage TNM I who underwent pulmonary resection surgery with a mediastinal hilar lymphadenectomy from January 2017 to December 2021, with an average follow-up of 25.5 months. Partition analysis was also applied to the dataset to detect outcome predictors.
Results: The results of this work showed similar OS between lobectomy and typical and atypical segmentectomy for patients with stage I NSCLC. In contrast, lobectomy was associated with a significant improvement in DFS compared with typical segmentectomy in stage IA, while in stage IB and overall, the two treatments were similar. Atypical segmentectomy showed the worst performance, especially in 3-year DFS. Quite unexpectedly, outcome predictor ranking analysis suggests a prominent role of smoking habits and respiratory function, irrespective of the tumor histotype and the patient's gender.
Conclusions: Although the limited follow-up interval cannot allow conclusive remarks about prognosis, the results of this study suggest that both lung volumes and the degree of emphysema-related parenchymal damage are the strongest predictors of poor survival in lung cancer patients. Overall, these data point out that greater attention should be addressed to the therapeutic intervention for co-existing respiratory diseases to obtain optimal control of early lung cancer.
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BMC Pulm Med
December 2024
Medical Department I, Division of Pneumology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307, Dresden, Germany.
Purpose: The role of lung biopsy for evaluation of persistent chest radiographic abnormalities including secondary organizing pneumonia (OP) in COVID-19 remains uncertain. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of trans-bronchial forceps biopsy (TBFB) in patients with persistent lung abnormalities on thoracic computed tomography (CT) scan following SARS-CoV-2 infection with particular focus on cases with OP and immunocompromised (IC) patients.
Methods: Descriptive retrospective single center analysis of all TBFB performed for diffuse lung parenchymal changes after COVID-19 03-2020 to 06-2023.
BMC Cancer
December 2024
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, No. 37, Guoxue Alley, Chengdu, 610041, China.
Background: This study aimed to assess combined supraclavicular lymph node dissection (SLND) and radiotherapy (RT) versus standalone radiotherapy for efficacy in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients with ipsilateral supraclavicular lymph node metastasis (ISLNM).
Methods: Totally 143 ISLNM patients treated between 2014 and 2021 in two medical institutions were examined retrospectively. Patients were divided into two groups to undergo combined SLND and radiotherapy (surgery + RT, n = 73) or radiotherapy alone (RT, n = 70).
BMC Cancer
December 2024
Department of Radiation Oncology, Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Jinan City, 250117, China.
Background: Intracranial radiation in combination with EGFR targeted therapy demonstrated signals of superiority to EGFR targeted therapy alone based on several observational studies. The timing based on specific criteria is not clear, and we evaluated the efficacy of intervention timing of craniocerebral radiotherapy (RT) combined with epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) on prognosis of patients with EGFR mutant lung adenocarcinoma complicated with brain metastasis.
Methods: In total, 603 patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring EGFR mutations were enrolled in this retrospective study between March 2008-September 2023.
Mol Med
December 2024
Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, 1 Xinmin Street, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, China.
Background: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the predominant form of lung cancer, contributing significantly to global health and economic challenges. This study elucidated the role of RBM15 in NSCLC progression through its involvement in m6A modifications.
Methods: RBM15 levels in NSCLC tissues and cells were assessed via RT-qPCR and Western blotting.
Mol Divers
December 2024
School of Basic Medical Sciences, Ningxia Medical University, 1160 Shengli Road, Yinchuan, 750004, Ningxia, China.
The development of phosphorylation-suppressing inhibitors targeting Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3) represents a promising therapeutic strategy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In this study, a generative model was developed using transfer learning and virtual screening, leveraging a comprehensive dataset of STAT3 inhibitors to explore the chemical space for novel candidates. This approach yielded a chemically diverse library of compounds, which were prioritized through molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.
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