JOURNAL ARTICLE
Thymic Radiation is Associated with Worse Outcomes in Patients with NSCLC.
Annals of Oncology
Multicohort observational analysis with consistent dose-response associations across three independent cohorts and plausible biological mechanism, but lacks randomized evidence of thymus-sparing intervention efficacy.
Reported
Sample size1107
RTOG-0617 adjusted hazard ratio f…1.29
RTOG-0617 p-value0.0028