The Impact of Preoperative Invasive Nodal Staging on Unexpected Mediastinal Upstaging in Early-Stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Although most patients did not undergo invasive nodal staging, <1% had unexpected N2 on surgical pathology. There was no association between lack of preoperative invasive nodal sampling and N2 nodal upstaging. Preoperative invasive nodal staging did not increase pathologic N2 nodal upstaging in early-stage NSCLC patients in our integrated health system.
Authors
- Kian C. Banks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9623-8627)
- Rachel K. Wile (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3914-2685)
- Katherine Barnes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3995-2418)
- Angela Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8348-4474)
- Varada Sarovar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1860-5133)
- Jeffrey B. Velotta
Institutions
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Surgical Oncology
- Published
- 2025-02-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-025-17034-0
- Primary Topic
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Kaiser Permanente