To Biopsy or Not to Biopsy?: A Matched Cohort Analysis of Early -Stage Lung Cancer Treated with Stereotactic Radiation with or Without Histologic Confirmation
International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics(2020)
Abstract
In our population, we found no clinically significant difference in patterns of recurrence or survival after lung SBRT, for clinically versus pathologically diagnosed patients. There was however a trend toward more distant recurrences in the pathological diagnosis group. Our power calculation suggests that data from multiple institutions would be required to rule out a difference in outcomes due to 5 to 15% of clinically diagnosed patients being treated for benign processes.
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lung cancer,biopsy,stereotactic radiation,early-stage
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