ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2026
Impact of non-tumor size related features on staging in non-small cell lung cancer: a population-level analysis of the SEER-medicare database.
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to quantify and characterize the presence of non-tumor size features among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in a surgical cohort versus those in a non-surgical cohort and assess the potential impact of key features on staging. A total of 22,876 patients aged 66 years and older with newly diagnosed (2010-2015) stage I-III NSCLC (T1-T3, N0/N1, M0) without prior or concurrent primary cancer were identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare Database. Reported T stage data (American Joint Committee on Cancer 7th Edition) were compared with a hypothetical tumor size only T stage (Tsize-Only), which did not account for non-tumor size defining characteristics. Frequencies of key non-tumor size features were analyzed among surgical and non-surgical cohorts. In the surgical cohort, a lower Tsize-Only
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