Spread Through Air Spaces (STAS) as a Predictive and Prognostic Factor in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer-Systematic Review.

Cancers (Basel) · 2025 · PMC12110037 · PMID 40427193

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In the lobectomy group, patients with STAS also showed a tendency toward poorer 5-year RFS and 5-year OS compared to their STAS-negative counterparts, though the differences did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.056 and p = 0.111, respectively).

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