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Abstracts <strong>Journal</strong> of <strong>Thoracic</strong> <strong>Oncology</strong> • Volume 12 Issue S1 January 2017<br />

PUB005 ROBOTIC THYMECTOMY: COMPARABLE PERIOPERATIVE<br />

OUTCOMES FOR BENIGN LESIONS AND EARLY STAGE THYMIC<br />

TUMORS<br />

Mohamed Kamel, Galal Ghaly, Abu Nasar, Brendon Stiles, Nasser Altorki,<br />

Jeffrey Port<br />

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York/NY/United States<br />

of America<br />

Keywords: lobectomy, morbidity, Length of stay, mortality<br />

PUB004 PREOPERATIVE THERAPY IS NOT REQUIRED FOR<br />

CLINICALLY OCCULT N2 NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER<br />

Mohamed Kamel, Galal Ghaly, Abu Nasar, Jeffrey Port, Brendon Stiles, Nasser<br />

Altorki<br />

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York/NY/United States<br />

of America<br />

Background: Patients with clinically evident N2 NSCLC are usually treated by<br />

definitive chemoradiation or by resection following neoadjuvant therapy. To<br />

date, No clinical-trials compared survival differences between induction and<br />

adjuvant therapy for occult N2-disease. We tested the hypothesis that patients<br />

with occult-N2 have equivalent survival after either neoadjuvant or adjuvant<br />

therapy. Methods: A retrospective review of a prospective database (2005-<br />

2014) was performed to identify patients with CT/PET negative mediastinal<br />

nodes, who were subsequently found to have positive N2 nodes either by<br />

mediastinoscopy or after resection. Demographic, clinical, and pathological<br />

data were reviewed. Disease free survival (DFS) was analyzed using Kaplan-<br />

Meier and differences compared using log-rank. Cox proportional hazards<br />

regression analysis was performed to determine the independent predictors of<br />

DFS. Univariate predictors (p

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