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Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy Versus Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Stage I Lung Cancer

2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 99; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.11.009

1552-6259

Masatsugu Hamaji, Fengshi Chen, Yukinori Matsuo, Atsushi Kawaguchi, Satoshi Morita, N. Ueki, Makoto Sonobe, Yasushi Nagata, Masahiro Hiraoka, Hiroshi Date,

Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations

BackgroundPrevious comparative reports of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suffered from short follow-up, mixed extents of resection and inclusion of benign lesion. We aimed to make comparisons of long-term outcomes between a pure series of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy and SBRT for biopsy-proven clinical stage I NSCLC.MethodsWe retrospectively compared overall survival (OS), cause-specific survival (CSS), recurrence-free survival (RFS), local control, regional lymph node (LN) control, and distant control between VATS lobectomy (n = 413) and SBRT (n = 104) for biopsy-proven clinical stage I NSCLC at our institution between 2003 and 2009. Propensity score matching was used to adjust the confounding effects in estimating treatment hazard ratios. Forty-one VATS lobectomy patients and 41 SBRT patients were matched blinded to outcome (1:1 ratio, caliper distance; 0.5).ResultsAfter propensity score matching, the follow-up period of the whole cohort ranged from 5 to 120 months with a median of 48. After propensity score matching there were significant differences in OS (p = 0.0016), CSS (p = 0.0015), RFS (p < 0.0001), local control (p = 0.0019), and distant control (p < 0.0001) and no significant difference in regional LN control (p = 0.11). The VATS lobectomy patients and SBRT patients had 68.5% and 37.3% of 5-year OS, 83.5% and 56.7% of 5-year CSS, and 60.4% and 19.5% of 5-year RFS, respectively.ConclusionsOur results suggest VATS lobectomy may offer significantly more favorable long-term outcomes than SBRT in potentially operable patients with biopsy-proven clinical stage I NSCLC. Previous comparative reports of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suffered from short follow-up, mixed extents of resection and inclusion of benign lesion. We aimed to make comparisons of long-term outcomes between a pure series of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy and SBRT for biopsy-proven clinical stage I NSCLC. We retrospectively compared overall survival (OS), cause-specific survival (CSS), recurrence-free survival (RFS), local control, regional lymph node (LN) control, and distant control between VATS lobectomy (n = 413) and SBRT (n = 104) for biopsy-proven clinical stage I NSCLC at our institution between 2003 and 2009. Propensity score matching was used to adjust the confounding effects in estimating treatment hazard ratios. Forty-one VATS lobectomy patients and 41 SBRT patients were matched blinded to outcome (1:1 ratio, caliper distance; 0.5). After propensity score matching, the follow-up period of the whole cohort ranged from 5 to 120 months with a median of 48. After propensity score matching there were significant differences in OS (p = 0.0016), CSS (p = 0.0015), RFS (p < 0.0001), local control (p = 0.0019), and distant control (p < 0.0001) and no significant difference in regional LN control (p = 0.11). The VATS lobectomy patients and SBRT patients had 68.5% and 37.3% of 5-year OS, 83.5% and 56.7% of 5-year CSS, and 60.4% and 19.5% of 5-year RFS, respectively. Our results suggest VATS lobectomy may offer significantly more favorable long-term outcomes than SBRT in potentially operable patients with biopsy-proven clinical stage I NSCLC.