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2008-5-21
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Background Second lung primaries occur at a rate of 2% per patient per year after curative resection for non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of fluorescence bronchoscopy using the Xillix((R)) LIFE-Lung Fluorescent Endoscopy System(TM) (LIFE-Lung system) in the surveillance of patients for second NSCLC primaries after resection or curative photodynamic therapy (PDT).Methods NSCLC patients who were disease-free following resection or endobronchial PDT were identified and recruited to participate in a LIFE bronchoscopy surveillance program. All suspicious areas were biopsied; areas of apparent normal mucosa served as negative controls. Biopsy specimens were reviewed by a single pulmonary pathologist.Results Thirty-six patients underwent 53 surveillance LIFE bronchoscopies and 6/112 biopsies revealed intraepithelial neoplasia (IEN) or invasive carcinoma in 6/36 (17%) of patients. The overall relative sensitivity of LIFE versus conventional bronchoscopy was 165% with a negative predictive value of 0.96, for the post-resection subset of patients these values increased to 200% and 0.97, respectively.Conclusions Surveillance LIFE bronchoscopy identified intraepithelial or invasive lesions in 17% of patients previously thought to be disease-free. These data support future multicenter trials on fluorescence bronchoscopic surveillance of NSCLC patients after curative surgical resection or PDT.
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eng
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PubMed-not-MEDLINE
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1070-3608
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Print
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6
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NLM
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Y
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1-7
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1999
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Fluorescence bronchoscopic surveillance in patients with a history of non-small cell lung cancer.
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Department of Surgery Section of Thoracic Surgery University of Pittsburgh Medical Center C800, 200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA.
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Journal Article
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