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    MA08 - Pawing the Way to Improve Outcomes in Stage III NSCLC (ID 127)

    • Event: WCLC 2019
    • Type: Mini Oral Session
    • Track: Treatment of Locoregional Disease - NSCLC
    • Presentations: 1
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      MA08.11 - SLCG SCAT Trial: Surgical Audit to Lymph Node Assessment Based on IASLC Recommendations (Now Available) (ID 2252)

      15:15 - 16:45  |  Author(s): Raúl Embún

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      Background

      The Spanish Lung Cancer Group (SLCG) developed a multicenter trial in which completely resected pathological N positive NSCLC patients received different schemes of adjuvance based on level of tumoral BRCA expression (SCAT trial). We assess here surgical topics, with an in-depth analysis of quality of lymphadenectomy based on IASLC recommendations, evaluating their effect on survival.

      Method

      Phase-III SLCG-SCAT trial included patients with completely resected (R0) NSCLC with pathological hilar and/or ipsilateral mediastinal lymph node (LN) involvement. Patients from SLCG-SCAT trial in which complete pathologic report with information about mediastinal lymph node dissection was available (including number of lymph nodes assessed and involved by tumor in each hilar and mediastinal region), were included for our study. We also analyzed data about estimated overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). All patients underwent surgical resection in high-volume departments of thoracic surgery.

      Result

      Lymph node assessment

      From the whole series (451 patients), in 33.7%, 17.7% and 49.9% of cases, regions 7, 10 and 11 respectively were not assessed. No lymph nodes were biopsied from region 8, 9 and 12 in 80%, 61.9% and 91.1% of cases, respectively. Region 10 was that with the higher number of lymph nodes resected (medium 4.64). From them, 27.9% were involved by tumor. Median assessed mediastinal regions was 4. In 21.1% of patients, lymph nodes from only one or two regions were obtained. In most of the patients (91.8%), one or two N1 regions were assessed. From 272 patients with N1 (no N2) involvement, 15.4% had no N2 regions biopsied, 20.2% had one N2 region evaluated and only 39.7% had three or more N2 regions assessed. On the other hand, from 179 patients with positive N2, 8.9% had no N1 regions biopsied and 54.7% had one. From 409 patients with at least one N2 lymph node resected, 120 (29.3%) shown the highest region involved. Number of mediastinal regions assessed and affected, and number of lymph nodes resected and affected were significantly higher in patients with N1 plus N2 disease than those with isolated N1 or N2 involvement.

      Survival

      Median follow-up was 52.3 months. Five-year OS was 55.7% (CI95% 50.8%-60.3%). Differences were found on OS regarding type of lymph node involvement (N1, N2 or both) (p=0.002). Five-year OS was 61.7% (CI95%:55.4%-67.4%), 51.5% (CI95%:39.2%-62.4%) and 42.3% (CI95%:32.1-52.2%) for patients with N1, N2 and N1+N2 disease, respectively. No differences were found in survival regarding total number of N1 or N2 regions evaluated. Both number of regions involved and number of lymph nodes with tumor were significantly related to worse prognosis.

      Conclusion

      International recommendations for surgical lymph node assessment in NSCLC were not deemed for the design of the trial and were not followed in a high proportion of cases. Patterns of N1 and N2 involvement shown to impact prognosis. The design of trials assessing surgical series of patients undergoing complete resection requires the control of surgical procedures in order to avoid recruitment biases.

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    OA12 - Profiling the Multidisciplinary Management of Stage III NSCLC (ID 144)

    • Event: WCLC 2019
    • Type: Oral Session
    • Track: Treatment of Locoregional Disease - NSCLC
    • Presentations: 1
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      OA12.07 - Radicality of Lymphadenectomy in Lung Cancer According to Surgical Approach. Results from the Spanish Group of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (Now Available) (ID 1062)

      15:45 - 17:15  |  Author(s): Raúl Embún

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      Background

      The minor standard of systematic nodal dissection (SND) in lung cancer surgery, which is the minimum recommended by the Union for International Cancer Control, requires the resection/sampling of, at least, 3 mediastinal (including subcarinal station) and 3 hilar/intrapulmonary lymph nodes (LN). The objective of this study is to analyze differences in intraoperative LN assessment in patients with surgically treated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) according to surgical approach (open vs VATS), from the results of the Spanish Group of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (GEVATS) database.

      Method

      Prospective multicenter cohort study of anatomic pulmonary resections (n=3533) performed from 20/12/16 to 20/03/18. Exclusions criteria were: indications different from NSCLC, previous lung cancer, synchronous tumors and induction therapy. Patients who did not meet the criteria for SND but had no nodal involvement were coded as pathologic (p)Nx (instead of pN0). Corresponding tests for homogeneity were performed. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to determine the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (95%CI). Stata/SE vs 13 statistical package was used for data analysis. Significance was considered when p<0.05.

      Result

      2532 patients were analyzed (1801 men [71.1%]; median age: 67 years). SND was performed in 65%, with a median of LN resected/sampled of 7 (IQR 4-12) and a rate of pN2 of 9.5%. Table1 summarizes results from bivariate analysis.Independent risk factors for thoracotomy at multivariate analysis (OR; 95%CI) were: squamous cell carcinoma vs adenocarcinoma (1.3; 1.04-1.68), staging mediastinoscopy (2.8; 1.83-4.22), LN resected (1.02; 1.00-1.04), SND (1.4; 1.07-1.8), tumour >3cm (1.8; 1.5-2.2), central tumour (2.5; 2.0-3.1); pN1 (1.5; 1.1-2.1) and pN2 (1.6; 1.1-2.3). A significantly higher proportion of nodal upstaging was observed in thoracotomy group: from cN0 to pN1/pN2, and from cN1 to pN2 (table1).

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      Conclusion

      The intensity of lymphadenectomy in GEVATS was superior in the thoracotomy approach. Therefore, intraoperative lymph node evaluation performed at VATS should improve to have better prognostic information and indicate adjuvant therapy.

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