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The fundamental problem of confounding by medical operability in retrospective comparisons of surgery versus stereotactic body radiation therapy for early-stage lung cancer

   
@article{JTD22294,
	author = {Vivek Verma and Chad G. Rusthoven},
	title = {The fundamental problem of confounding by medical operability in retrospective comparisons of surgery versus stereotactic body radiation therapy for early-stage lung cancer},
	journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
	volume = {10},
	number = {Suppl 18},
	year = {2018},
	keywords = {},
	abstract = {The standard of care for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is lobectomy with lymph node (LN) dissection (1). Sublobar resection [e.g., wedge resection (WR) or anatomic segmentectomy] is an alternative for patients unsuitable for lobectomy, owing to a greater degree of lung preservation and potentially less postoperative morbidity and/or mortality (2). However, the broader candidacy of sublobar resection comes at the theoretical expense of a decrease in the “oncologic quality” of resection, which may lead to poorer tumor-related outcomes.},
	issn = {2077-6624},	url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/22294}
}