The Prognostic Impact of Log Odds of Positive Lymph Nodes on Survival of Patients With Early-stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: A Population Study Based on the Seer Database and a Chinese Cohort
Kexing Xi,
Hui Yu,
Zewei Huang
Abstract:Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS) in patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods Four hundred and eighty-seven NSCLC patients with pT2N0M0 who underwent radical resection from June 1999 to September 2009 at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center and 8,702 patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) were reviewed. According to the X-tile analysis, the patients were classified in… Show more
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