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DNA content in correlation with postsurgical stage in non-small cell lung cancer.

Department of Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery (impact factor: 3.74). 05/1992; 53(4):680-3. pp.680-3
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ABSTRACT The relationship between DNA content, TNM stage, tumor size, grade, histology, and disease-free survival was assessed in a retrospective study of patients with non-small cell lung cancer who had undergone resection and complete mediastinal lymph node dissection. Flow cytometric analysis was performed on paraffin-embedded tissue of 90 consecutive patients. The patients were analyzed both as a group and by individual stage. Median follow-up was 11 months (range, 1 to 35 months). Aneuploid tumors were not significantly different from diploid tumors with regard to pathologic TNM stage (p = 0.34), size (p = 0.5), grade (p = 0.5), or histology (p = 0.34). Disease-free survival of patients with aneuploid tumors was not significantly different than that of patients whose tumors had normal DNA content (p = 0.69). DNA content did not correlate with established prognostic factors in patients with non-small cell lung cancer who underwent resection and complete mediastinal lymph node dissection.

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Keywords

35 months
 
90 consecutive patients
 
aneuploid tumors
 
complete mediastinal lymph node dissection
 
diploid tumors
 
disease-free survival
 
DNA content
 
Flow cytometric analysis
 
individual stage
 
non-small cell lung cancer
 
paraffin-embedded tissue
 
pathologic TNM stage
 
patients
 
resection
 
retrospective study
 
tumors
 

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