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Treatment Outcomes in Stage I Lung Cancer: A Comparison of Surgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT).

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Submitted by

Philip McElnay

Source

Source Name: Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Source URL: http://journals.lww.com/jto/Abstract/publishahead/Treatment_Outcomes_in_Stage_I_…

Author(s)

Puri, Varun; Crabtree, Traves D.; Bell, Jennifer M.; Broderick, Stephen R; Morgensztern, Daniel; Colditz, Graham A.; Kreisel, Daniel; Krupnick, A. Sasha; Patterson, G. Alexander; Meyers, Bryan F.; Patel, Aalok; Robinson, Clifford G.

A large retrospective study comparing 117618 patients from the National Cancer Database with Stage I NSCLC. 111731 received surgery, 5887 received SBRT. In a propensity managed comparison, those undergoing surgery had increased overall survival.