Surgery Versus Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early-Stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): A Comprehensive Review of Survival and Local Control Outcomes.

Cureus · 2025 · PMC12177259 · PMID 40539135

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The sublobar subgroup, when compared to SBRT, showed a trend toward worse outcomes with a high HR of 3.65 (95% CI: 0.98-13.00; p = 0.05), although this did not reach statistical significance, likely due to wide confidence intervals and limited sample size.

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Comparisons with sublobar resection yielded an HR of 1.22 (95% CI: 1.00-1.48; p = 0.06; I2 = 0%), which did not reach statistical significance.

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