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. 2008 Aug;23(4):604-8.
doi: 10.3346/jkms.2008.23.4.604.

The prognostic significance of multiple station N2 in patients with surgically resected stage IIIA N2 non-small cell lung cancer

Jin Gu Lee  1 , Chang Young Lee, In Kyu Park, Dae Joon Kim, Sang Ho Cho, Kil Dong Kim, Kyung Young Chung
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The prognostic significance of multiple station N2 in patients with surgically resected stage IIIA N2 non-small cell lung cancer

Jin Gu Lee et al. J Korean Med Sci. 2008 Aug.

Abstract

Mediastinal (N2) lymph node involvement is heterogeneous with huge variation in the extent and grouped together under stage IIIA. However, they showed a different survival even in the same stage. We tried to determine the prognostic implication of the multiple station N2 lymph node metastasis in stage IIIA N2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The survival of stage IIIA N2 was analyzed according to the number of N2 station and their survival was compared with that of stage IIIB. In stage IIIA N2 NSCLC, multivariate analysis indicated that multiple station N2 was one of the independent prognostic factors for poor survival. The 5-yr survival of multiple station N2 IIIA (20.4%) was lower than that of single station N2 IIIA (33.8%) significantly (p=0.016). but when it was compared with that of stage IIIB (15.5%), there was no difference. Therefore, we suggest that multiple station N2 should be considered similar to stage IIIB disease with regard to predicting survival and accordingly should receive a new position in the TNM staging system.

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Overall survival curves of patients with stage IIIA N2 and stage IIIB NSCLC.
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Overall survival curves of patients with single station N2, multiple station N2, and stage IIIB NSCLC.
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