Preoperative prediction of lymph node metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma based on tumor size and carcinoembryonic antigen
Tao Lin, Jian Zhao, Feng Zhu, Tengfei Ge, Lei Tang, Dan Liu, Lu Wang, Hua Guo, Peng Qian, Wenglong Zhang, Xianbao Cao, Dongchun Ma · 2026
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Description
Tao Lin and co-authors build a simple forecast for lung cancer spread in a 2026 study. Whether lung adenocarcinoma has reached nearby lymph nodes drives staging and treatment. The team wanted a tool any clinic could use before surgery, built from facts already on hand: tumor size and a blood marker called CEA.
They studied 6,406 patients whose cancer was removed, splitting them by date into building and testing groups. Only tumor size and the blood marker proved to be independent predictors of node spread. Their chart, a nomogram, turns those two facts into a risk estimate. A simple, honest tool like this can guide how widely surgeons should sample nodes.
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| CREATOR | Tao Lin, Jian Zhao, Feng Zhu, Tengfei Ge, Lei Tang, Dan Liu, Lu Wang, Hua Guo, Peng Qian, Wenglong Zhang, Xianbao Cao, Dongchun Ma |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27110 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |