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Published on: September 25, 2018
Recurrence risk after preoperative biopsy in patients with resected early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer: a
Chengping Hu1, Juan Jiang1, Yuanyuan Li1
1Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, National Key Clinical Specialty, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China, leeround@csu.edu.cn.
Background:
Tumor cell dissemination after needle biopsy has been reported in a variety of malignancies, including non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, there is little clinical evidence in regard to whether preoperative biopsy increases the risk of recurrence in completely resected NSCLC.
Patients And Methods:
A total of 322 patients diagnosed as pathological stage I NSCLC using intraoperative biopsy (IOB) (control group), preoperative percutaneous needle biopsy (PNB) or bronchoscopic biopsy were included in this study. Baseline characteristics were collected and compared. The disease-free survival (DFS) of patients was analyzed using Kaplan-Meier method. Subgroup analysis and Cox regression were performed to evaluate the effect of preoperative biopsy on recurrence risk with adjustment for potential confounders.
Results:
Among these patients, 202 (63%) underwent IOB, 66 (20%) underwent PNB, and 54 (17%) underwent bronchoscopic biopsy. DFS of patients who had preoperative PNB or bronchoscopic biopsy was similar to those who had IOB (P=0.514 and 0.869). Neither preoperative PNB nor transbronchial biopsy significantly affected recurrence incidence across all the relevant subgroups. Furthermore, multivariate analysis showed that preoperative biopsy was not associated with increased recurrence risk in NSCLC patients with adjustment for confounders, while squamous cell carcinoma and adjuvant chemotherapy were associated with prolonged DFS.
Conclusion:
Neither preoperative PNB nor bronchoscopic biopsy increased the recurrence risk in patients with resected stage I NSCLC, indicating that these procedures could be safely used for diagnosis of early-stage NSCLC.
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