Risk Factors for Lymph Node Metastases and Prognosticators of Survival in Patients Undergoing Pulmonary Metastasectomy for Colorectal Cancer Servet Bölükbas, MD, FETCS, Stefan Sponholz, MD, Natalie Kudelin, MD, Michael Eberlein, MD, PhD, Joachim Schirren, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 97, Issue 6, Pages 1926-1932 (June 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.026 Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Overall survival: survivor function (black line). (Gray-shaded area = 95% confidence interval.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 97, 1926-1932DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.026) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Survival depending on N status: N0 (solid line), median survival 78 months; and N1/2 (dashed line), median survival 44 months (p = 0.03). (Gray-shaded areas = 95% confidence interval.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 97, 1926-1932DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.026) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Survival depending on primary tumor location: colon cancer (solid line), median survival 92 months; rectal cancer (dashed line), median survival 40 months (p < 0.001). (Gray-shaded areas = 95% confidence interval.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 97, 1926-1932DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.026) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Survival depending on response to chemotherapy before metastasectomy: progress (solid line), median survival 15 months; stable disease/partial response (SD/PR [dotted line]), median survival 63 months (p < 0.001). (Gray-shaded areas = 95% confidence interval.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 97, 1926-1932DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.026) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions