Mediastinal lymph node dissection in T1 stage lung adenocarcinoma: a retrospective analysis of survival outcomes and prognostic factors from the SEER database
Bingqun Wu, Xiying Cao, Yong Cui, Shenhai Wei, Shouqiang Pan, Pengcheng Hu, Hui Li · 2025
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Bingqun Wu and co-authors used a national cancer database to ask whether removing chest lymph nodes helps early lung cancer patients live longer, in work published in 2025. More than five thousand patients with small tumors had lobe removal, with or without full node removal. Follow up ran a median of about eight years.
Patients who had nodes removed lived much longer at every small tumor size. For the smallest tumors, median survival was about twelve years against about six and a half without the extra surgery. Adjusted analysis kept node removal as an independent sign of better survival. The authors urge a confirming trial but support the practice.
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| CREATOR | Bingqun Wu, Xiying Cao, Yong Cui, Shenhai Wei, Shouqiang Pan, Pengcheng Hu, Hui Li |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |