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ArticleThoracic cancer2024

Proposed novel grading system for stage I invasive lung adenocarcinoma and a comparison with the 2020 IASLC grading system.

Shuaibo Wang, Ye Li, Xujie Sun, Jiyan Dong, Li Liu, Jingbo Liu, Ruanqi Chen, Feng Li, Tiange Chen, Xiang Li and 5 more

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Shuaibo WangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2710-0322
Ye LiPing An Healthcare Technology, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1480-8428
Xujie SunDepartment of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Jiyan DongDepartment of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Li LiuDepartment of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9678-9653
Jingbo LiuDepartment of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Ruanqi ChenDepartment of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Feng LiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Tiange ChenPing An Healthcare Technology, Beijing, China.
Xiang LiPing An Healthcare Technology, Beijing, China.
Guotong XiePing An Healthcare Technology, Beijing, China.
Jianming YingDepartment of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7301-4118
Qiang GuoBig data office, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Yousheng MaoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Lin YangDepartment of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6185-5713

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National Key Research and Development Program of China 2018YFC0116905
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Abstract

backgroundSeveral studies have proposed grading systems for risk stratification of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma based on histological patterns. However, the reproducibility of these systems is poor in clinical practice, indicating the need to develop a new grading system which is easy to apply and has high accuracy in prognostic stratification of patients.

methodsPatients with stage I invasive nonmucinous lung adenocarcinoma were retrospectively collected from pathology archives between 2009 and 2016. The patients were divided into a training and validation set at a 6:4 ratio. Histological features associated with patient outcomes (overall survival [OS] and progression-free survival [PFS]) identified in the training set were used to construct a new grading system. The newly proposed system was validated using the validation set. Survival differences between subgroups were assessed using the log-rank test. The prognostic performance of the novel grading system was compared with two previously proposed systems using the concordance index.

resultsA total of 539 patients were included in this study. Using a multioutcome decision tree model, four pathological factors, including the presence of tumor spread through air space (STAS) and the percentage of lepidic, micropapillary and solid subtype components, were selected for the proposed grading system. Patients were accordingly classified into three groups: low, medium, and high risk. The high-risk group showed a 5-year OS of 52.4% compared to 89.9% and 97.5% in the medium and low-risk groups, respectively. The 5-year PFS of patients in the high-risk group was 38.1% compared to 61.7% and 90.9% in the medium and low-risk groups, respectively. Similar results were observed in the subgroup analysis. Additionally, our proposed grading system provided superior prognostic stratification compared to the other two systems with a higher concordance index.

conclusionThe newly proposed grading system based on four pathological factors (presence of STAS, and percentage of lepidic, micropapillary, and solid subtypes) exhibits high accuracy and good reproducibility in the prognostic stratification of stage I lung adenocarcinoma patients.

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AdenocarcinomaAdenocarcinoma of LungLung NeoplasmsHumansNeoplasm StagingPrognosisReproducibility of ResultsRetrospective Studiesgrading systemhistological subtypeslung adenocarcinomamachine learningspread through air spaces

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