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CC BY 4.0 · Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep 2025; 14(01): e1-e3
DOI: 10.1055/a-2564-2186
Letter to the Editor

Consideration of Pneumonectomy in the Era of Chemo-Immunotherapy in Resectable NSCLC

Ibrahim Azar
1   Trinity Health IHA Medical Group Oakland Campus, Pontiac, United States
,
Nikhil Vojjala
1   Trinity Health IHA Medical Group Oakland Campus, Pontiac, United States
,
Richa Parikh
2   Department of Medicine, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan, United States
,
Hari B. Keshava
3   Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, California, United States
,
Misako Nagasaka 
4   Department of Oncology, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, California, United States
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Introduction

Recently, there has been increasing evidence for the use of neo-adjuvant chemoimmunotherapy in patients with resectable lung cancer. We aimed to analyze the pneumonectomy rates in the recently published phase 3 trials (including CM 816, KN 671, AEGEAN, and NEO-TORCH)[1] [2] [3] [4] in patients with resectable NSCLC and compare them with historical data. In this paper, we highlight the changing total surgical and pneumonectomy rates in the era of chemo-immunotherapy in resectable nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.

Ethical Approval

The authors are accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee(s) and with the Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013). Publication of this editorial and accompanying figures was waived from patient consent according to the UCI ethics committee/institutional review board.




Publication History

Received: 24 January 2025

Accepted: 18 March 2025

Article published online:
21 April 2025

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