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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2018

Treatment-Related Predictive and Prognostic Factors in Trimodality Approach in Stage IIIA/N2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Branislav Jeremić, Francesc Casas, Pavol Dubinsky, Antonio Gomez-Caamano, Nikola Čihorić, Gregory Videtic, Ivan Igrutinovic

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Branislav JeremićBioIRC R&D Centre for Biomedical Research, Kragujevac, Serbia.
Francesc CasasUniversity Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
Pavol DubinskyUniversity Hospital to East Slovakia Institute of Oncology, Kosice, Slovakia.
Antonio Gomez-CaamanoUniversity Hospital, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Nikola ČihorićDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Gregory VideticCleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States.
Ivan IgrutinovicFaculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While there are no established pretreatment predictive and prognostic factors in patients with stage IIIA/pN2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) indicating a benefit to surgery as a part of trimodality approach, little is known about treatment-related predictive and prognostic factors in this setting. A literature search was conducted to identify possible treatment-related predictive and prognostic factors for patients for whom trimodality approach was reported on. Overall survival was the primary endpoint of this study. Of 30 identified studies, there were two phase II studies, 5 "prospective" studies, and 23 retrospective studies. No study was found which specifically looked at treatment-related predictive factors of improved outcomes in trimodality treatment. Of potential treatment-related prognostic factors, the least frequently analyzed factors among 30 available studies were overall pathologic stage after preoperative treatment and UICC downstaging. Evaluation of treatment response before surgery and by pathologic tumor stage after induction therapy were analyzed in slightly more than 40% of studies and found not to influence survival. More frequently studied factors-resection status, degree of tumor regression, and pathologic nodal stage after induction therapy as well as the most frequently studied factor, the treatment (in almost 75% studies)-showed no discernible impact on survival, due to conflicting results. Currently, it is impossible to identify any treatment-related predictive or prognostic factors for selecting surgery in the treatment of patients with stage IIIA/pN2 NSCLC.

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non-small cell lung cancerpredictive factorsprognostic factorsstage IIIA/pN2trimodality therapy

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