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S. Katsumata
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OA07 - Lymph Node Metastases and Other Prognostic Factors for Local Spread (ID 376)
- Event: WCLC 2016
- Type: Oral Session
- Track: Surgery
- Presentations: 1
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OA07.05 - Prognostic Impact of Pleural Lavage Cytology (PLC): Significance of PLC after Lung Resection (ID 5801)
15:05 - 15:15 | Author(s): S. Katsumata
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Background:
We previously reported the prognostic significance of pleural lavage cytology (PLC) in patients undergoing surgery for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Based on a larger cohort of more than 3500 NSCLC patients, which is the largest ever reported from a single institution in the literature, we evaluated the prognostic impact of PLC on survival and recurrence.
Methods:
From January 1993 to July 2015, 3671 patients underwent R0 surgical resection for NSCLC at our institution and PLC results before (pre-) and after (post-) lung resection were both available. The cytological evaluation was classified into 3 categories: negative (-), suggestive (±), positive (+). We excluded 77 patients whose PLC results were suggestive, and 3594 patients were analyzed. The impact of PLC results on survival and recurrence was evaluated with conventional clinicopathological factors.
Results:
The overall survival (OS) of pre-PLC (+) patients was significantly inferior to that of pre-PLC (-) patients. However, the 5-year OS rate of pre-PLC (+) patients was 43%, which was significantly better than that of patients with pleural dissemination (11%). In the following analyses, we divided the patients into 3 groups according to pre/post- PLC results as follows: Pre (-)/ post (-), Group A (n=3461); pre (+)/ post (-), Group B (n=43); and post (+), Group C (n=87). Statistically significant difference was not observed between Groups A and B in OS or in recurrence-free survival (RFS) (p=1.00, 0.28, respectively). However, there were significant differences in OS and RFS between Groups B and C (p=0.01 and p=0.02), and between Groups A and C (p<0.01 and p<0.01), respectively. In univariate and multivariate analyses of clinicopathological factors including post-PLC results to identify prognosticators for OS, post-PLC(+) (hazard ratio (HR) =2.20, p<0.01), older age (≥65 years; HR=1.95, p<0.01), smoking history (+) (HR=1.48, p<0.01), elevated serum CEA level (>5.0 mg/dL; HR=1.28, p<0.01), pathological(p)T≥2 (HR=1.28, p<0.01), pN≥1 (HR=1.48, p<0.01), pStage≥II (HR=1.51, p<0.01), pl(+) (HR=1.43, p<0.01), ly(+) (HR=1.32, p<0.01), and v(+) (HR=1.53, p<0.01) were found to be significant independent unfavorable prognosticators.
Conclusion:
The prognostic impact of pre-PLC was moderate and not prohibiting lung resection. Post-PLC was shown to be a strong independent prognostic factor. Its impact on survival of NSCLC patients was very strong, and therefore should be incorporated in the future TNM classification.
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