- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, 200433, P. R. China;
Surgical resection is the only radical method for the treatment of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. Intraoperative frozen section (FS) has the advantages of high accuracy, wide applicability, few complications and real-time diagnosis of pulmonary nodules. It is one of the main means to guide surgical strategies for pulmonary nodules. Therefore, we searched PubMed, Web of Science, CNKI, Wanfang and other databases for nearly 30 years of relevant literature and research data, held 3 conferences, and formulated this consensus by using the Delphi method. A total of 6 consensus contents were proposed: (1) Rapid intraoperative FS diagnosis of benign and malignant diseases; (2) Diagnosis of lung cancer types including adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, others, etc; (3) Diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma infiltration degree; (4) Histological subtype diagnosis of invasive adenocarcinoma; (5) The treatment strategy of lung adenocarcinoma with inconsistent diagnosis on degree of invasion between intraoperative FS and postoperative paraffin diagnosis; (6) Intraoperative FS diagnosis of tumor spread through air space, visceral pleural invasion and lymphovascular invasion. Finally, we gave 11 recommendations in the above 6 consensus contents to provide a reference for diagnosis of pulmonary nodules and guiding surgical decision-making for peripheral non-small cell lung cancer using FS, and to further improve the level of individualized and precise diagnosis and treatment of early-stage lung cancer.
Citation: Thoracic Surgery Branch of Shanghai Medical Association, Thoracic Surgeons Branch of Shanghai Medical Doctor Association, The Specialist Alliance of Clinical Skills Promotion and Enhancement for General Thoracic Surgery. Expert consensus of thoracic surgeons on guiding surgical decision-making based on intraoperative frozen sections for peripheral pulmonary nodules with diameter≤2 cm. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2022, 29(6): 667-675. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202204098 Copy
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- 3. Taffurelli M, Montroni I, Santini D, et al. Effectiveness of sentinel lymph node intraoperative examination in 753 women with breast cancer: Are we overtreating patients? Ann Surg, 2012, 255(5): 976-980.
- 4. Hasegawa Y, Tsukahara K, Yoshimoto S, et al. Neck dissections based on sentinel lymph node navigation versus elective neck dissections in early oral cancers: A randomized, multicenter, and noninferiority trial. J Clin Oncol, 2021, 39(18): 2025-2036.
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- 6. Ginsberg RJ, Rubinstein LV. Randomized trial of lobectomy versus limited resection for T1N0 non-small cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer Study Group. Ann Thorac Surg, 1995, 60(3): 615-622.
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- 12. Eguchi T, Kameda K, Lu S, et al. Lobectomy is associated with better outcomes than sublobar resection in spread through air spaces (STAS)-Positive T1 lung adenocarcinoma: A propensity score-matched analysis. J Thorac Oncol, 2019, 14(1): 87-98.
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- 15. Saji H, Okada M, Tsuboi M, et al. Segmentectomy versus lobectomy in small-sized peripheral non-small-cell lung cancer (JCOG0802/WJOG4607L): A multicentre, open-label, phase 3, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial. Lancet, 2022, 399(10335): 1607-1617.
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- 38. Warth A, Muley T, Meister M, et al. The novel histologic International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society classification system of lung adenocarcinoma is a stage-independent predictor of survival. J Clin Oncol, 2012, 30(13): 1438-1446.
- 39. Hung JJ, Jeng WJ, Chou TY, et al. Prognostic value of the new International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society lung adenocarcinoma classification on death and recurrence in completely resected stageⅠlung adenocarcinoma. Ann Surg, 2013, 258(6): 1079-1086.
- 40. Zhang J, Wu J, Tan Q, et al. Why do pathological stageⅠA lung adenocarcinomas vary from prognosis?: A clinicopathologic study of 176 patients with pathological stageⅠA lung adenocarcinoma based on the IASLC/ATS/ERS classification. J Thorac Oncol, 2013, 8(9): 1196-1202.
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- 43. Moon Y, Lee KY, Park JK. Margin width of resected lepidic lung cancer does not affect recurrence after sublobar resection. World J Surg, 2018, 42(5): 1449-1457.
- 44. Su H, Xie H, Dai C, et al. Procedure-specific prognostic impact of micropapillary subtype may guide resection strategy in small-sized lung adenocarcinomas: A multicenter study. Ther Adv Med Oncol, 2020, 12: 1758835920937893.
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