Prognostic Value of National Comprehensive Cancer Network Lung Cancer Resection Quality Criteria Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MBBS, Meredith A. Ray, MPH, PhD, Nicholas R. Faris, MDiv, Matthew P. Smeltzer, MStat, PhD, Carrie Fehnel, BBA, Cheryl Houston-Harris, BS, CCRP, Raymond S. Signore, RNFA, Laura M. McHugh, RN, Paul Levy, MD, Lynn Wiggins, MD, Vishal Sachdev, MD, Edward T. Robbins, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 103, Issue 5, Pages 1557-1565 (May 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.098 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) lung cancer resection quality criteria attainment by year: (A) anatomic resection; (B) negative margins; (C) hilar lymph node examination; (D) examination of three or more mediastinal lymph node stations; (E) all four criteria. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 1557-1565DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.098) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Survival impact of attaining National Comprehensive Cancer Network resection quality criteria: (A) anatomic resection (anatomic, blue; no anatomic resection, red); (B) negative margins (negative margin no, blue; negative margin yes, red); (C) hilar node examination (hilar station sampled no, blue; hilar station sampled yes, red); (D) three or more mediastinal stations (mediastinal node station no, blue; mediastinal node station yes, red). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 1557-1565DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.098) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Survival impact of attaining National Comprehensive Cancer Network lung cancer resection quality criteria stratified by (A) number of criteria met (0 met, blue; 1 met, red; 2 met, green; 3 met, brown; 4 met, purple); and (B) whether all four criteria were met (all met no, blue; all met yes, red). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 1557-1565DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.098) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions