Solid component tumor doubling time is a prognostic factor in non-small cell lung cancer patients

BACKGROUND: Recently, several reports investigating tumor doubling times (TDTs) in lung cancer have demonstrated that lung cancer patients with shorter TDTs have poor prognoses. Although data have shown that the solid component of a tumor is clinically more important, relationships between solid component TDTs and lung cancer prognoses remain unclear.

METHODS: To evaluate relationships between TDT and survival, we retrospectively evaluated 231 patients who underwent surgical resection for non-small cell lung cancer. The TDTs of whole and solid components were calculated using preoperative thin-slice chest computed tomography scans with a cut-off of 400 d between scans.

RESULTS: Patients with short TDTs (< 400 d) both in the solid and whole components had poor prognoses. Among pathological stage I patients (n = 176), short solid component TDT (< 400 d) significantly influenced prognosis only in pathological stage IB patients. Moreover, we found that patients with shorter solid component TDTs had significantly worse prognosis compared with patients who showed shorter whole component TDTs.

CONCLUSIONS: Short solid component TDTs (< 400 d) could be a poor prognostic indicator for non-small cell lung cancer patients undergoing surgical resection; furthermore, clinicians should pay particularly close attention to cases with rapid growth of the solid tumor component.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Journal of cardiothoracic surgery - 14(2019), 1 vom: 12. März, Seite 57

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Miura, Kentaro [VerfasserIn]
Hamanaka, Kazutoshi [VerfasserIn]
Koizumi, Tomonobu [VerfasserIn]
Kawakami, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]
Kobayashi, Nobutaka [VerfasserIn]
Ito, Ken-Ichi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Lung cancer
Prognosis
Solid component
Tumor doubling time

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Date Completed 25.04.2019

Date Revised 25.02.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13019-019-0879-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM294946675