Loco-regional relapse pattern and timing after segmentectomy in patients with c-IA non-small cell lung cancer
Hironobu Wada, Hidemi Suzuki, Takahide Toyoda, Yuki Sata, Terunaga Inage, Kazuhisa Tanaka, Yuichi Sakairi, Yukiko Matsui, Shigetoshi Yoshida, Ichiro Yoshino · 2024
Read Loco-regional relapse pattern and timing after segmentectomy in patients with c-IA non-small cell lung cancer by Hironobu Wada, Hidemi Suzuki, Takahide Toyoda, Yuki Sata, Terunaga Inage, Kazuhisa Tanaka, Yuichi Sakairi, Yukiko Matsui, Shigetoshi Yoshida, Ichiro Yoshino (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11635250.txt.
Description
Hironobu Wada and co-authors mapped relapse patterns and timing in 2024 after segmentectomy, the smaller lung operation, for early lung cancer. Removing a segment rather than a whole lobe is now standard for small peripheral tumors, but relapse near the site is more common than after lobectomy. The study set out to describe exactly where and when those relapses come.
The team compared 115 patients who had segmentectomy for clinical stage IA cancer with 292 who had lobectomy, from January 2008 to December 2015. Some segment patients were chosen because they could not tolerate the bigger operation. New growing lung lesions that were not new primaries counted as relapses. Readers get long-term pattern data that can shape follow-up scans and the choice between the two operations.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hironobu Wada, Hidemi Suzuki, Takahide Toyoda, Yuki Sata, Terunaga Inage, Kazuhisa Tanaka, Yuichi Sakairi, Yukiko Matsui, Shigetoshi Yoshida, Ichiro Yoshino |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |