Survival of Patients With or Without Symptoms Undergoing Potentially Curative Resections for Primary Lung Cancer Andrea R.G. Sheel, BS (Hons), MBChB, James McShane, BS, Michael P. Poullis, BS (Hons), MBBS, MD, MIEEE, FRCS (CTh) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 95, Issue 1, Pages 276-284 (January 2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.09.051 Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier survival plot shows the stage-matched 5-year survival after resection for non-small cell lung cancer: stage IA, solid line; stage IB, dashed line; stage II, dotted line; and stage IIIA, dashed-dotted line. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 276-284DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.09.051) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 (A) The number of symptoms patients reported at diagnosis. (B) Frequency of main presenting symptom at diagnosis. Symptoms relating to pie-chart segments are found in the corresponding colour co-ordinated legend to the right of the chart. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 276-284DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.09.051) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Number of symptomatic (red bars) vs asymptomatic (blue bars) patients at diagnosis (p < 0.05). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 276-284DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.09.051) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Kaplan-Meier survival plot for all symptomatic (green lines) and asymptomatic (blue lines) patients at diagnosis (p = 0.489). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 276-284DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.09.051) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 5 Kaplan-Meier survival curve for stage I disease in symptomatic (green lines) and asymptomatic (blue lines) patients (p = 0.55). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 276-284DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.09.051) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 6 Kaplan-Meier survival curve for stage II disease in symptomatic (green lines) and asymptomatic (blue lines) patients (p = 0.81). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 276-284DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.09.051) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 7 Kaplan-Meier survival curve for stage IIIa disease symptomatic (green lines) and asymptomatic (blue lines) patients (p = 0.61). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 276-284DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.09.051) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions