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Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy Versus Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Stage I Lung Cancer

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975%2814%2902123-7/abstract

Author(s)

Masatsugu Hamaji, Fengshi Chen, Yukinori Matsuo, Atsushi Kawaguchi, Satoshi Morita, Nami Ueki, Makoto Sonobe, Yasushi Nagata, Masahiro Hiraoka, Hiroshi Date

The authors retrospectively reviewed their institutional database to assess outcomes for VATS lobectomy vs SBRT for stage I NSCLC, comparing propensity score-matched groups (41 pairs). Survival, cancer-specific survival, local recurrence, and distant recurrence were significantly better in the surgical group.