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    E13 - High Risk Patients and Low Risk Surgeons (ID 13)

    • Event: WCLC 2013
    • Type: Educational Session
    • Track: Surgery
    • Presentations: 4
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      E13.1 - Salvage Surgery After Radiation: Residual Tumour and Complications (ID 432)

      14:00 - 15:30  |  Author(s): C. Dickhoff, M.A. Paul, J.J. Kloek

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      Salvage surgery after Radiation: Residual Tumor and Complications Definitive chemoradiotherapy is increasingly used in the treatment of patients with stage III non-small-cell lung cancer. Historically, local control and overall survival rates have been poor. To improve local control higher doses of radiotherapy are being investigated, with or without new chemotherapeutic agents. Dose-escalation appears to provide a modest benefit in terms of preventing local failure and improving overall survival, but the benefit comes at a price: The risk of both early and late toxicity appears to increase as well. Despite improved treatment remnants of vital tumor often persist. In many patients this has no clinical significance because prognosis is determined by the occurrence of distant metastases. However, some tumors do not metastasize and local recurrence becomes a problem. These patients are then referred for possible surgical resection. Because of this possibility of isolated local recurrence, doctors Increasingly perform early re-staging procedures after definitive chemoradiotherapy. In case of persistent tumor patients are referred for resection as “late-induction cases”. Another category consists of patients presenting with complications caused by high-dose irradiation. These late sequalae of radiotherapy are: bronchial stenosis, fatal haemoptysis, esophageal stenosis, fistula’s, cardiac complications and the occurrence of 2nd primary tumors. They may occur as early as 3 months, but an interval of one or more years is not uncommon (1) Some of these complications, such as fistula’s or bronchial stenosis , require urgent surgical correction, due to their severe symptoms. Late surgical resection in irradiated patients has been described with good success (2). However, the impaired wound healing capacity of irradiated tissue makes surgery hazardous and the liberal use of non-irradiated tissue flaps is recommended. We describe our experience of surgical correction of late complications after concurrent chemoradiotherapy: Fistulae: A tracheo-esophageal fistula or broncho-esophageal fistula is best treated by esophageal resection and tube-stomach replacement, because the esophagus is often stenotic and mere interposition of a muscle flap between airway and esophagus will not suffice. Stenosis: Bronchial stenosis requires resection, but re-anastomosis carries a high risk of dehiscence. We have seen two cases of dehiscence after 6 and 8 weeks, after the sutures had been absorbed, in spite of wrapping the suture line with an intercostal muscle flap. Tracheomalacia requiring temporary stenting has also occurred following partial tracheal resection. Hemoptysis: Necrosis and cavitation of an irradiated area may be complicated by a fungal infection (aspergillus), causing haemoptysis. These patients, who are often weak and malnourished, are treated by a staged procedure: First thoracic wall fenestration for adequate drainage of the infectied area together with insertion of a gastrostomy or jejunostomy catheter for nutritional support. We try to avoid nasogastric tubes in these patients, to avoid aspiration. At a second stage the cavity is filled with a pedicled muscle flap. Depending on the size and location of the cavity, a partial thoracoplasty is also performed. The interval between the two operations should be limited if the cavity extends towards the hilum, because erosion of a vessel wall may cause fatal hemorrhage. New treatments for lung cancer create new situations for the thoracic surgeon. Good skill, knowledge of old techniques such as thoracoplasty and the use of muscle flaps, and emphasis on nutritional support are mandatory to solve these problems.

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      E13.2 - Standards and Benchmarking of Surgery (ID 433)

      14:00 - 15:30  |  Author(s): A. Brunelli

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      Managed care system, public accountability, cost containment, pay-for-performance and ranking culture demand Quality of care to be monitored through appropriate instruments. Outcome endpoints (i.e. morbidity and mortality) are still the most widely used quality indicators in thoracic surgery. Outcomes however should be reported in the most correct way to prevent risk-averse behaviours and misleading information. They need risk-adjustment, as different case-mixes at different institutions may influence outcome and those units operating on older and sicker patients would be penalized without an appropriate risk-adjustment. Therefore, risk-modelling must become the logical and necessary approach for provider profiling and comparative audit. The most important tool of any quality assessment endeavour is a database that is made up of a representative sample of the study group of interest. The gold standard for data should be a specialty-specific, procedure-specific, prospectively maintained, periodically audited, electronic database that contain, at the minimum, a core set of variables that has been demonstrated to be associated with outcome. The practical steps that should be planned and possibly recorded to construct a solid clinical database are a clear definition of the data sources and the creation of a list of variables (and their definitions) that will constitute the database. These steps will permit that 1) the database can be used even by subjects that did not participate to its construction, 2) the database can be audited by external data managers to assess quality of data, 3) changes in data collection or variables recording may be adequately planned. The importance of the source and the quality of data cannot be overemphasized enough. Most of the data that are of clinical interest derive from clinical records or other attached documents, such as laboratory exams or PFTs. One of the most critical aspects of the database construction is the extraction of the data from the medical record to the database. Wherever possible, data should be entered in real time, at the point of capture; to this end a networked database should be accessible in the operating theatre, the ward, the clinic and the multidisciplinary team meeting room. When possible this data should be used to generate documents such as operation notes, MDT report, correspondence, so that data capture becomes integral to routine patient care. The person in charge of capturing or transferring data into a database should be properly qualified and adequately trained. A Clinical Audit Lead should be selected within each unit who will be responsible for the accuracy and quality of data collection. The data should be periodically checked for discrepancies, inconsistencies, missing values, in order to ensure a high quality database. In fact no model or predictive equation can be better than the data upon which it is based. If any underperformance in data collection would be detected this should be reported to all persons involved in the process of data recording with the final objective of continuously improving the quality of the database. The European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) appointed a Database Committee responsible to develop and maintain an online clinical Database with the aim to collect clinical data from thoracic surgery units across Europe. The ESTS Database is an online database, which is free to members and directly accessible from the link on the ESTS homepage. The main purpose of the ESTS database is for quality monitoring and improving activities. Several outcome and process indicators are included in the dataset. These indicators have been used to construct a Composite Performance Score, which is used as one of the parameters necessary for the European Institutional Accreditation System (EIAS). The EIAS is a process aimed at standardization of thoracic surgery practice across European units. It is currently based on the information submitted to the ESTS Database and focused on major lung resections for lung cancer, the prevalent activity in our specialty. In the construction of the CPS, indicators covering all three temporal domains of our practice (preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative) were selected. These indicators included risk-adjusted hospital mortality and morbidity (outcomes) and 3 process measures derived from published guidelines: the proportion of lung resection candidates with measured DLCO, the proportion of candidates to lung resection for NSCLC with clinically suspicious nodal disease submitted to preoperative invasive mediastinal staging and the proportion of patients with a intraoperative mediastinal staging according to the ESTS published guidelines. The final composite score combined 3 processes and 2 outcomes indicators into a single comprehensive quality score which was able to discriminate between the units entering in the comparison process. Units eligible for the accreditation process are then inspected by a team of auditors appointed by the ESTS to verify a sample of data submitted to the ESTS database and the structural, procedural and qualification characteristics of the unit and surgeons working in that unit. Most recently the ESTS Executive Committee revised the structural characteristics of general thoracic surgery unit in Europe with the aim to provide a comprehensive document in line with the quality initiatives of the Society and serving as a guide for harmonizing the general thoracic surgical practice in Europe. That document will be used as a reference for future quality initiatives and educational activities of the society

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      E13.3 - Micrometastases: Magic or Mainstream? (ID 434)

      14:00 - 15:30  |  Author(s): Y. Wu

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      E13.4 - Decision-Making and the New IASLC Staging System (ID 435)

      14:00 - 15:30  |  Author(s): P. Goldstraw

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      The 7th edition of TNM for Lung Cancer, introduced in January 2010, was based entirely upon recommendations from the IASLC Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee. The enormous size of the data base, its international accrual of cases diagnosed over a relatively short time period and its inclusion of cases treated by all modalities of care, coupled with detailed analysis and intensive validation ensured that this version aligned stage with prognosis more accurately than ever before. This was achieved by introducing new size cut-points for tumour size, re-assigning some T and M descriptors and moving some T, N, and M combinations to new stage groupings. Inevitably there are questions as to whether there should be consequent changes to established treatment algorithms. These discussions will focus upon the following scenarios: a) Larger node negative tumours, > 5cms, are now included in stage II. In the past 10 years we have seen data showing that stage II cases benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy after complete resection. Do these "new" stage II cases benefit from adjuvant therapy? b) Cases in which there are additional tumour nodules in the tumour-bearing lobe and other ipsilateral lobes have with certain combinations of N category, been down-staged to IIIA. Selected cases of stage IIIA disease have benefitted from resection, usually in a multi-modality setting. Should these cases, now included in stage IIIA be treated with regimens including surgery? c) Tumours invading certain mediastinal structures that were classified as T4 in previous editions of TNM have not been re-assigned but when associated with N0 or N1 disease these cases have been down-staged to stage IIIA. Should they also be considered for surgery in a multi-modality setting? Whilst it is impossible to give dogmatic and unequivocal advice on the right answer to these questions the speaker hopes to give some insights into the factors which might influence the decisions made by the Multi-Disciplinary Team in such situations. Other issues raised by the 7th edition include: a) The distinction between pulmonary metastases and synchronous primary tumours has been clarified and the opinion of the pathologist has been emphasised in this distinction. Thus in cases in which there is more than one malignant nodule biopsy of additional lesions may be required if such a distinction would alter the treatment advised in any case. b) The IASLC nodal map and definitions of nodal stations and zones are now the recommended means of describing regional lymph node involvement in lung cancer. All members of the MDT should be familiar with this nomenclature. c) The definition of an R0 resection now requires that a defined minimum of lymph nodes/stations be removed by the surgeon and examined by the pathologist. Surgeons and pathologists need to comply with this requirement and other members of the MDT need to understand this expanded definition. d) The 7th edition of TNM and the new IASLC/ATS/ERS classification of Adenocarcinomas may influence the management of screen-detected lesions. The new T category of T1a tumours no larger than 2cms and the fall in prognosis seen in lesions above this threshold may influence the choice of approach to lesions around this watershed, one's policy of structured surveillance and the extent of surgical resection for lesions confirmed to be malignant. As LDCT screening becomes more widely available the MDT managing these cases will need to consider these matters when developing their investigative algorithms.

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    HOD3 - Tuesdays Highlights of the Day - Surgery, Staging, Imaging and Pulmonary (ID 227)

    • Event: WCLC 2013
    • Type: Highlight of the Day Session
    • Track: Imaging, Staging & Screening
    • Presentations: 1
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      HOD3.1 - Surgery and Staging (ID 4046)

      07:00 - 08:00  |  Author(s): H. Date

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    MO03 - Thymic Malignancies (ID 123)

    • Event: WCLC 2013
    • Type: Mini Oral Abstract Session
    • Track: Medical Oncology
    • Presentations: 3
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      MO03.01 - Outcome of surgical treatment for thymic epithelial tumors based on the nationwide retrospective database of 3033 patients in Japan (ID 2284)

      10:30 - 12:00  |  Author(s): H. Date

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      Background
      Thymic epithelial tumor, consisting of thymoma, thymic carcinoma and thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma, is a relatively rare neoplasm, and there is not a satisfying consensus in the treatment strategy. Because of lack of TNM staging system and global consensus on pathological classification, global research in these research has been difficult. To participate in movement of establishing the global database, Japanese Association for research of the Thymus (JART) conducted the project of Japanese nation-wide database in 2012.

      Methods
      Patients undergoing surgical treatment during 20 years between 1991 and 2010 in Japan were collected from 32 institutes. 3182 patients were first enrolled, but after exclusion of cases with insufficient information, 3033 cases remained for analysis finally.

      Results
      1435 patients (44%) were male, and 1595 were female (not identified in 3 patients). The age at operation was 13 to 88 years (mean 57 years old). Pathological diagnosis was thymoma in 2505 patients (Type A: 203, Type AB: 710, Type B1: 599, Type B2: 669, Type B3: 329), thymic carcinoma in 381 patients (Squamous cell carcinoma: 223, neuroendocrine carcinomas 66), and unclassified or unknown in 147 patients. According to Masaoka staging system, 1063 patients were in stage I, 1084 were in stage II, 477 in stage III, 197 in stage IVA, 57 in stage IVB (undetermined in 155 patients). Complete resection was achieved in 2753 patients (92%), subtotal resection (mass reduction of more than 80%) in 157 patients (5%), partial resection including biopsy in 86 patients (unknown in 37 patients). 249 patients were alive with tumor. 316 patients were dead during the observation period, and 161 patients died from tumor. Among 2557 patients who underwent complete resection (R0), 269 patients (10.5%) had tumor recurrence. In the patients who underwent complete or subtotal resection, 10-year overall survival rate was 89% in thymoma, 56% in squamous cell carcinoma, 30% in non-squamous thymic carcinoma, 72% in well-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma and 29% in poorly-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma. According to Masaoka stage, 10-year overall survival rate was 94% in stage I, 93% in stage II, 74% in stage III, 59% in stage IVA and 44% in stage IVB. In thymoma patients who underwent complete resection, recurrence-free survival rate at 10 years was 96% in type A, 99% in type AB, 92% in type B1, 80% in type B2, 72% in type B3. By Cox’ proportional hazard model, involvement of the mediastinal pleura (p=0.01), involvement of the lung (p=0.01), pleural dissemination (p=0.0009), distant metastasis (p=0.01) and WHO histological subtype (p<0.0001) were found to be independent factors for tumor recurrence after complete resection, while nodal metastasis, intrapericardial dissemination, involvement of pericardium, pulmonary artery, SVC, brachiocephalic vein, aorta, or brachiocephalic artery were not.

      Conclusion
      Japanese nation-wide database revealed the oncological difference among thymoma, thymic carcinoma and thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma. In thymoma, involvement of pleura and lung, pleural dissemination, distant metastasis and WHO histological classification were significant factors of tumor recurrence. These results are supposed to contribute to clinical practice for tumor treatment as well as establishment of global TNM classification.

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      MO03.02 - Surgical Outcome of Patients with Stage III Thymoma in the Japanese Nationwide Database (ID 2842)

      10:30 - 12:00  |  Author(s): H. Date

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      Background
      Stage III thymoma has a variety characteristics in terms of involved organs, complex surgery and multimodal strategy, and a careful consideration is required in choices of treatments. Recently the Japanese Association for Research on the Thymus (JART) conducted a nationwide large cohort analysis for thymic epithelial tumors. The aim of this study is to clarify clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcome of patients who underwent surgical resection for stage III thymoma using this database.

      Methods
      Clinical data of 3,033 thymic epithelial tumor patients of 1991 to 2010 were collected rom 32 Japanese institutes. Medical information registered included patients’ characteristics, types of surgery, pathological diagnosis, perioperative therapy, and clinical outcomes were registered. In this study, stage III thymoma patients who underwent surgery were extracted from the database, and retrospectively analyzed for clinical characteristics and surgical outcome.

      Results
      A total of 340 records of patients were analyzed in this study, which comprised 186 males (54.7%) and 153 females (45.0%), 83 (24.4%) with myasthenia gravis, 42 (12.4%) with induction chemotherapy, 18 (5.3%) with preoperative radiotherapy, and 29 (8.5%) with adjuvant chemotherapies. WHO histologic types comprised 16 A (4.7%), 40 AB (11.8%), 47 B1 (13.8%), 118 B2 (34.7%) and 97 B3 (28.5%). Involved organs were lung in 209 (61.4%), pericardium in 167 (49.1%), chest wall in 7 (2.1%), phrenic nerve in 88 (25.9%) and great vessels in 134 (39.4%). Completeness of resection was R0 in 268 (78.8%), R1 in 35 (10.3%) and R2 in 20 (5.9%). Complications were observed in 85 (25.0%) including arterial fibrillation, phrenic nerve palsy, bleeding and crisis of myasthenia gravis, and 30-day mortality rate was 1.8% (6 cases). Tumor recurrence was experienced in 96 (28.2%), and 39 (11.5%) died during the observation. Overall and disease-free 10-year survival rates were 81.0% and 56.7%, respectively. Involved organs except for chest wall, completeness of resection or myasthenia gravis did not affect the survivals. Number of involved organs (1 vs. >2) and tumor length (<7cm vs. >7cm) affected disease-free survival but not overall survival. Among factors suggested to affect overall survival by univariate analyses such as male, surgical complication, WHO histologic type B1-3, chest wall invasion, induction treatments, and recurrence, independent adverse predictors were revealed by a multivariate analysis to be male (p=0.031, HR=2.47), induction chemotherapy (p=0.034, HR=2.39), postoperative complication (p=0.018, HR=2.41) and recurrence of disease (p=0.041, HR=2.15). Of 96 patients with recurrence, 47 patients who underwent salvage resection showed better prognosis than 49 patients who did not (p=0.009).

      Conclusion
      This nationwide registry study exhibited favorable surgical outcome in Japanese patients with stage III thymoma. Effectiveness of multimodal treatments need to be further investigated in prospective controlled trials.

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      MO03.04 - Analysis of lymphatic metastases of thymic epithelial tumors on Japanese database (ID 3196)

      10:30 - 12:00  |  Author(s): H. Date

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      Background
      Thymic epithelial tumors sometimes metastasize to lymph nodes (LNs). The frequency of lymph node metastasis, the pattern of node metastasis and the relationship between prognosis and node metastasis are still unclear.

      Methods
      We registered patients with thymic epithelial tumors who had undergone resection between 1991 and 2010 from 29 institutes in Japan by the Japanese Association for Research on the Thymus (JART). We investigated the collected data according to the site of lymphatic metastasis. Yamakawa-Masaoka's paper (Cancer 1991;68:1984–7.) tentatively classified the N factor to 3 groups: metastasis to anterior mediastinal lymph nodes around the thymus were defined as N1, metastasis to intrathoracic lymph nodes other than anterior mediastinal lymph nodes as N2, and metastasis to extrathoracic lymph nodes as N3.

      Results
      The rate of lymphatic metastasis in thymoma was 1.75% (44 cases of 2508). Most of metastatic nodes were located in anterior mediastinal lymph nodes (N1, 78%). There is a significant difference of overall survival between thymomas with LN metastasis and those without LN metastasis (p<0.0001, 10-year survival: 89.8% vs 63.6%). Thymomas with N1 metastasis showed a good prognosis than those with other node metastasis, although there is no significant relationship (5-year survival: 64.4% vs 52.5%). The rate of lymphatic metastasis in thymic carcinoma including thymic carcinoid was 22% (84 cases of 380). Most of metastatic nodes were located in anterior mediastinal lymph nodes (N1, 69%). There is a significant difference of overall survival between thymic carcinomas with LN metastasis and those without LN metastasis (p<0.0001, 10-year survival: 59.5% vs 18.4%). Thymic carcimomas with N1 metastasis showed good prognosis than those with other node metastases, although there was no significant relationship (5-year survival: 55.5% vs 27.5%).

      Conclusion
      The rate of lymphatic metastasis in thymoma and thymic carcinoma was 1.75% and 22%, respectively. Both tumors frequently metastasized to the anterior mediastinal nodes. There was a significant difference of overall survival between tumors with LN metastasis and without LN metastasis in both tumors. And both tumors with N1 metastasis showed good prognoses than those with other node metastases, although there was no significant relationship. We think that it may be reasonable to consider the anterior mediastinal lymph node group (N1) to be a primary lymph node of thymic epithelial tumor.

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    MO04 - Lung Cancer Biology I (ID 86)

    • Event: WCLC 2013
    • Type: Mini Oral Abstract Session
    • Track: Biology
    • Presentations: 1
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      MO04.07 - Chronic lung injury by constitutive expression of AID leads to focal alveolar regeneration and cancer (ID 116)

      16:15 - 17:45  |  Author(s): H. Date

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      Activation-induced cytidine deaminase, AID, is an enzyme required for somatic hypermutation and class-switch recombination which diversify immunoglobulin genes and causes DNA mutations and strand breaks. Uncontrolled expression of AID is cytotoxic. AID transgenic mice invariably develop lung lesions morphologically similar to human atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH), which can be a precursor of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. About 10 % of these mice develop visible lung tumor including adenocarcinoma. However, the relationship between this mouse AAH-like lesion (MALL) and lung cancer is unclear. In the present study, we examined MALLs to elucidate their characteristics and involvement in lung cancer.

      Methods
      p53, KRAS, and EGFR mutation status in each laser-microdissected MALL were analyzed. The expression of airway epithelial cell markers and lung alveolar regeneration markers in MALLs were investigated by immunohistochemistry. Apoptosis assay were performed in murine lungs. For cell proliferation assay, AID Tg mice were received a daily intraperitoneal injection of 1 mg 5-ethynyl-2’-deoxyuridine (EdU) for 7 days. Then, mice were studied 1 day (day 1) or 3 weeks (day 20) after the last injection.

      Results
      We found mutations of p53 in 10.5% of MALLs (4/38), but no mutations of KRAS and EGFR. In immunohistochemistry, MALLs were partially positive for SP-C (lung alveolar type II cell-specific marker), but negative for CC-10 (clara cell-specific marker) and podoplanin (lung alveolar type I cell-specific marker). Frequency of apoptotic cells among lung alveolar wall cells was significantly higher in AID transgenic mice than in wild type mice. Moreover, frequency of Edu-positive MALL decreased significantly at day 20 compared to that at day 1. The expressions of p63, cytokeratin 5/14, and E-cadherin/Lgr6, the recently described markers of lung alveolar regeneration, were observed in MALLs.

      Conclusion
      Based on these observations, we speculate that MALL is a regenerating tissue compensating for alveolar epithelial cell loss caused by AID-induced genotoxic stress. AID expression in such regenerating tissue should predispose cells to malignant transformation by its mutagenic activity. AID transgenic mice could be a mouse model that may provide the link between lung regeneration after injury and the development of lung cancer.

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    O07 - Supportive and Surgical Care (ID 136)

    • Event: WCLC 2013
    • Type: Oral Abstract Session
    • Track: Surgery
    • Presentations: 1
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      O07.08 - DISCUSSANT (ID 4005)

      10:30 - 12:00  |  Author(s): H. Date

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    O09 - General Thoracic Surgery (ID 100)

    • Event: WCLC 2013
    • Type: Oral Abstract Session
    • Track: Surgery
    • Presentations: 1
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      O09.08 - DISCUSSANT (ID 3922)

      16:15 - 17:45  |  Author(s): H. Date

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    P3.19 - Poster Session 3 - Imaging (ID 181)

    • Event: WCLC 2013
    • Type: Poster Session
    • Track: Imaging, Staging & Screening
    • Presentations: 1
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      P3.19-005 - Quantitative CT predicts histological tumor invasiveness: analysis on 211 lesions of cT1N0M0 lung adenocarcinoma (ID 1500)

      09:30 - 16:30  |  Author(s): H. Date

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      Background
      Biological behavior of small lung adenocarcinoma differs in each patient. High intensity area of the tumor on single slice of chest CT has been reported as a prognostic factor in several studies. However, because single slice is obviously insufficient to utilize all of the information on CT images of a tumor, we applied 3- dimensional volumetric evaluation for whole tumor volume. Our study aims to predict lymph node metastasis and tumor invasiveness by means of preoperative quantitative CT for lung cancer patients.

      Methods
      From January 2011 to November 2012, 236 lesions of cT1N0M0 lung adenocarcinoma were surgically resected in our institute. Among them, total 211 lesions of 193 patients were included in this study (Age: 67.2±9.5 male/female: 94/99). We analyzed preoperative CT images of 211 lesions of resected cT1N0M0 lung adenocarcinoma retrospectively. All patients were subjected to helical scanning using sections 1mm or less thick during one breath hold. We applied threshold of -800 and -300 Hounsfield units (HU) within those CT data, calculated the tumor volume, and then, integrated them with clinico-pathological information. We defined the area -300HU and over as “solid tumor volume” and between -800 to-301 HU as “GGO tumor volume”. Spearman’s rank test was utilized for statistical analyses.

      Results
      We divided those lesions into 3 groups by solid tumor volume; less than 0.25cm[3] (n=61), 0.25 to 1.5cm[3] (n=72), and over 1.5cm[3] (n=78). Solid tumor volume correlated with histological tumor invasiveness; less than 0.25cm[3], p1to3 (0, 0%) ly1 (0, 0%) v1 (0, 0%); 0.25 to 1.5cm[3], p1to3 (6, 77%) ly1 (1, 1%) v1 (1, 1%); over 1.5cm[3], p1to3 (14, 19%) ly1 (4, 6%) v1 (14, 19%), (p<0.01, p=0.03, p<0.01, respectively). Pathological tumor differentiation was also investigated; less than 0.25cm[3], well (34, 56%) moderate (26, 43%) poor (1, 2%); 0.25 to 1.5cm[3], well (17, 22%) moderate (57, 73%) poor (4, 5%); over 1.5cm[3], well (8, 11%) moderate (51, 71%) poor (13, 18%) (p<0.01). Lymph node metastases were found in none (0%) of solid tumor volume less than 0.25cm[3], in 2 (3%) with 0.25 to 1.5cm[3], in 6 (8%) with over 1.5cm[3] (p=0.01). Moreover we calculated the proportion of solid tumor volume / (solid tumor volume + GGO tumor volume) as “solid tumor ratio”. We divided those lesions into 2 groups by solid tumor ratio; 0.3 or less (n=123), and over 0.3 (n=88). Solid tumor ratio also correlated with histological tumor invasiveness; 0.3 or less, p1to3 (0, 0%) ly1 (0, 0%) v1 (0, 0%); over 0.3, p1to3 (20, 23%) ly1 (5, 6%) v1 (15, 17%). (p<0.01, p<0.01, p<0.01, respectively) Strikingly, lymph node metastases were found in none (0%) of solid tumor ratio 0.3 or less, but in 8 (9%) with over 0.3. (p<0.01)

      Conclusion
      Both tumor volume -300HU and over “solid tumor volume” and “solid tumor ratio” significantly correlated with tumor invasiveness. Preoperative quantitative CT is probably useful for predicting tumor invasiveness and lymph node metastases, and, as a result, effectively selecting operative procedure for cT1N0M0 lung cancer whether lobectomy or segmentectomy is applicable.