Joe Y Chang, Professor and Clinical Section Chief at MD Anderson Cancer Center, shared a post on X about a recent article by Yang Zhang at al. published in Journal of Clinical Oncology:
“In early-stage NSCLC, is systemic mediastinal lymph node dissection (LND) always necessary?
No.
Phase III randomized study in JCO 7/2025 showed:
LND increased side effects without improving disease-free survival and OS in patients with ground-glass opacity-dominant adenocarcinoma.”
Title: Phase III Study of Mediastinal Lymph Node Dissection for Ground Glass Opacity–Dominant Lung Adenocarcinoma
Authors: Yang Zhang, Bin Qian, Qingping Song, Junjie Ma, Hang Cao, Chaoqiang Deng, Shengping Wang, Ting Ye, Jiaqing Xiang, Yawei Zhang, Yihua Sun, Yueren Yan, Shanbo Zheng, Haoxuan Wu, Qingyuan Huang, Hong Hu, Yuan Li, Fangqiu Fu, Haiquan Chen
Read the Full Article on Journal of Clinical Oncology
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