Lobar or Sublobar Resection for Peripheral Stage IA Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.
Nasser AltorkiXiaofei WangDavid KozonoColleen WattRodney LandrenauDennis WigleJeffrey PortDavid R JonesMassimo ContiAhmad S AshrafiMoishe LibermanKazuhiro YasufukuStephen YangJohn D MitchellHarvey PassRobert KeenanThomas BauerDaniel MillerLeslie J KohmanThomas E StinchcombeEverett VokesPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2023)
In patients with peripheral NSCLC with a tumor size of 2 cm or less and pathologically confirmed node-negative disease in the hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes, sublobar resection was not inferior to lobectomy with respect to disease-free survival. Overall survival was similar with the two procedures. (Funded by the National Cancer Institute and others; CALGB 140503 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00499330.).