title: Sublobar Resection, Radiofrequency Ablation or Radiotherapy in Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer creator: Safi, Seyer creator: Rauch, Geraldine creator: op den Winkel, Jan creator: Kunz, Josef creator: Schneider, Thomas creator: Bischof, Marc creator: Heussel, Claus Peter creator: Huber, Peter E. creator: Herth, Felix J.F. creator: Dienemann, Hendrik creator: Hoffmann, Hans subject: ddc-610 subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine description: BACKGROUND: The best therapy for patients with stage I nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are medically unfit for lobectomy or prefer not to undergo surgery has not yet been demonstrated. OBJECTIVES: We analyzed data from our prospective database to evaluate the recurrence and survival rates and assess the extent to which the type of treatment explains outcome differences. METHODS: This study included 116 patients with histologically proven clinical stage I NSCLC who were treated with sublobar resection (SLR; n = 42), radiofrequency ablation (RFA; n = 25) or radiotherapy (RT; n = 49) between 2009 and 2013. The primary end point was the time to primary tumor recurrence (PR). Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox regression were used to compare the recurrence patterns and survivals after adjustments for potential confounders. RESULTS: The SLR patients were younger and exhibited better performance status. The RT patients had larger tumors. After adjusting for age and tumor size, there were differences between the different treatments in terms of the PR rate, but no differences were observed in overall (OS) or disease-free survival. The hazard ratio for PR comparing SLR versus RT adjusted for age and tumor size was 2.73 (95% confidence interval, CI, 0.72–10.27) and that for SLR versus RFA was 7.57 (95% CI 1.94–29.47). CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that SLR was associated with a higher primary tumor control rate compared to RFA or RT, although the OSs were not different. These results should be confirmed in prospective trials. publisher: Karger date: 2015 type: Article type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/27241/1/381555.pdf identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00027241 identifier: https://doi.org/10.1159/000381555 identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-272411 identifier: Safi, Seyer ; Rauch, Geraldine ; op den Winkel, Jan ; Kunz, Josef ; Schneider, Thomas ; Bischof, Marc ; Heussel, Claus Peter ; Huber, Peter E. ; Herth, Felix J.F. ; Dienemann, Hendrik ; Hoffmann, Hans (2015) Sublobar Resection, Radiofrequency Ablation or Radiotherapy in Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Respiration, 89 (6). pp. 550-557. ISSN 0025-7931 (Print-Ausg.), 1423-0356 (Online-Ausg.) relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/27241/ rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess rights: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/help/license_urhg.html language: eng