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- Title
Development and validation of a novel TNM staging N‐classification of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma.
- Authors
de Almeida, John R.; Su, Jie Susie; Kolarski, Mirko Manojlovic; Truong, Tra; Weinreb, Ilan; Perez‐Ordonez, Bayardo; Smith, Stephen M.; Hosni, Ali; Patel, Snehal; Valero, Cristina; Xu, Bin; Ghossein, Ronald; Katabi, Nora; Clark, Jonathan; Low, Tsu‐Hui; Gupta, Ruta; Graboyes, Evan M.; Davies, Joel; Richardson, Mary; Pasham, Vishu
- Abstract
Background: For oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), extent of extranodal extension (ENE) (minor, ≤2 mm; major, >2 mm) is differentially prognostic, whereas limitations exist with the 8th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer TNM N‐classification (TNM‐8‐N). Methods: Resected OSCC patients at four centers were included and extent of ENE was recorded. Thresholds for optimal overall survival (OS) discrimination of lymph node (LN) features were established. After dividing into training and validation sets, two new N‐classifications were created using 1) recursive partitioning analysis (RPA), and 2) adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) and were ranked against TNM‐8‐N and two published proposals. Results: A total of 1460 patients were included (pN0: 696; pN+: 764). Of the pN+ cases, 135 (18%) had bilateral/contralateral LNs; 126 (17%) and 244 (32%) had minor and major ENE, and two (0.3%) had LN(s) >6 cm without ENE (N3a). LN number (1 and >1 vs. 0: aHRs, 1.92 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.44–2.55] and 3.21 [95% CI, 2.44–4.22]), size (>3 vs. ≤3 cm: aHR, 1.88 [95% CI, 1.44–2.45]), and ENE extent (major vs. minor: aHR, 1.40 [95% CI, 1.05–1.87]) were associated with OS, whereas presence of contralateral LNs was not (aHR, 1.05 [95% CI, 0.81–1.36]). The aHR proposal provided optimal performance with these changes to TNM‐8‐N: 1) stratification of ENE extent, 2) elimination of N2c and 6‐cm threshold, and 3) stratification of N2b by 3 cm threshold. Conclusion: A new N‐classification improved staging performance compared to TNM‐8‐N, by stratifying by ENE extent, eliminating the old N2c category and the 6 cm threshold, and by stratifying multiple nodes by size. There are several limitations in the most recent TNM N classification system including categories with small sample size and categories that have limited prognostic value. The authors proposed and validated a new N classification system that overcomes these limitations and outperforms the previous iteration of TNM.
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 2024, Vol 130, Issue 3, p410
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cncr.35020