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Comparison between microwave ablation and lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a propensity score
Wang Yao1,2, Mingjian Lu3, Wenzhe Fan1
1a Department of Oncology Interventional , The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University , Guangzhou , China.
Purpose:
To compare the effectiveness and complication between microwave ablation and lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer.
Materials And Methods:
This retrospective study was approved by two institutional ethics committees and all patients were provided with informed consent. From January 2000 to December 2010, 54 and 795 stage I patients who underwent microwave ablation and lobectomy were included in this study. A matched cohort composed of 54 and 108 patients in the microwave ablation and the lobectomy group were selected after adjustment with 1:2 propensity score matching. The overall survival and disease-free survival were evaluated. Survival curves were constructed with the Kaplan-Meier method and compared by using the log-rank test.
Results:
The 1, 3 and 5-year Overall survive were 100, 92.6 and 50.0% for MWA group and 100, 90.7 and 46.3% for lobectomy group. The 1, 3 and 5-year disease free survival was 98.1, 79.6 and 37.0% for MWA group and 98.1, 81.5 and 29.6% for lobectomy group. There was no significant difference between two groups in overall survival (p = 0.608) and disease free survival (p = 0.672). Additionally, local or distant metastasis rate (p = 0.544) were not significantly different between two groups while the complication rate in the MWA group was significantly lower than the lobectomy group (p = 0.008).
Conclusion:
Microwave ablation has similar therapeutic effect compared with lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer, but with fewer complication and less pain.
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