Defining the Ideal Time Interval Between Planned Induction Therapy and Surgery for Stage IIIA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Pamela Samson, MD, MPHS, Traves D. Crabtree, MD, Cliff G. Robinson, MD, Daniel Morgensztern, MD, Stephen Broderick, MD, A. Sasha Krupnick, MD, Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD, G. Alexander Patterson, MD, Bryan Meyers, MD, MPH, Varun Puri, MD, MSCI The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 103, Issue 4, Pages 1070-1075 (April 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.053 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Histogram of clinical stage IIIA NSCLC patients in the NCDB from 2006 to 2012, by length of time between start of induction therapy and date of surgical resection.StartYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Early surgery85163235120310335Delayed surgery1,5291,09457530912931 The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 1070-1075DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.053) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier analysis for clinical stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer patients, by early versus delayed interval from the start of induction therapy to date of surgery.StartYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Early surgery946637165Delayed surgery94642060 The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 1070-1075DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.053) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Kaplan-Meier analysis for clinical stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer patients with positive surgical margins (≥R1), by early versus delayed interval from the start of induction therapy to date of surgery. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 1070-1075DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.053) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions