Incidence and Impact of Pre-treatment Tumor Cavitation on Survival Outcomes of Stage III Squamous-Cell Lung Cancer Patients Treated with Radical Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy

Impact of tumor cavitation (TC) on outcomes of locally-advanced squamous-cell lung cancer (LA-SqCLC) patients undergoing to concurrent chemoradiotherapy (C-CRT) was assessed. A total of 789 stages IIIA/B SqCLC patients were analyzed with the primary end-point of overall survival (OS). The TC was incident in 95 (12%) patients, and its presence was associated with significantly poorer median OS durations independent of the other covariates (p<0.001).

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