Outcomes of surgery versus chemoradiotherapy in patients with clinical or pathologic stage N3 non-small cell lung cancer.

In this National Cancer Database study, surgery was associated with improved long-term overall survival compared with chemoradiation in patients with clinical or pathologic N3 disease. This graphical abstract demonstrates the results of propensity score matched-analysis of clinical and pathologic N3 disease patients with hazard ratios and confidence intervals from time-varying multivariable Cox regression presented in tables and Kaplan-Meier survival curves with numbers at risk.