Japanese Lung Cancer Registry Study of 11,663 Surgical Cases in 2004: Demographic and Prognosis Changes Over Decade Noriyoshi Sawabata, MD, PhD, Etsuo Miyaoka, PhD, Hisao Asamura, MD, PhD, Yoichi Nakanishi, MD, PhD, Kenji Eguchi, MD, PhD, Masaki Mori, MD, PhD, Hiroaki Nomori, MD, PhD, Yoshitaka Fujii, MD, PhD, Meinoshin Okumura, MD, PhD, Kohei Yokoi, MD, PhD Journal of Thoracic Oncology Volume 6, Issue 7, Pages 1229-1235 (July 2011) DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e318219aae2 Copyright © 2011 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions
FIGURE 1 Clinical stage-specific survival curves by UICC-TNM ver. 7 (2009). The log-rank test results were not significantly different between IIB and IIIA (p = 0.5), IIIA and IIIB (p = 0.7), IIB and IIIB (p = 0.5), and IIIB and IV (p = 0.08). For the N classification, all #10 lymph nodes in the Naruke map were converted to #7 in UICC-TNM ver. 7 (2009). Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2011 6, 1229-1235DOI: (10.1097/JTO.0b013e318219aae2) Copyright © 2011 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions
FIGURE 2 Pathological stage-specific survival curves by UICC-TNM ver. 7 (2009). The log-rank test results were not significantly different between IIIB and IV (p = 0.9). For the N classification, all #10 lymph nodes in the Naruke map were converted to #7 in UICC-TNM ver. 7 (2009). Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2011 6, 1229-1235DOI: (10.1097/JTO.0b013e318219aae2) Copyright © 2011 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions