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Table 5 Summary of studies related to TC and TNET

From: Analysis of 25 surgical cases of thymic neuroendocrine tumors and thymic carcinoma

Author

(published year)

No.

Pathology

Surgery case

R0 Resection rate(%)

Survival

our study

25

TC:16[Sq(n = 15),Adsq(n = 1)]

TNET:9[Ac(n = 3),LCNEC(n = 2),SCC(n = 2),

other(n = 2)]

100%(25/25)

TC:81

TNET:88

5yOS/5yDFS

TC:58.9/ 57. %

TNET:87.5/ 75%

Kondo [15]

(2003)*

1320

TC:186

[Sq1(n = 115),und(n = 27),SCC(n = 16),Ad(n = 5)

,Adsq(n = 4),other(n = 7)]

TCD:41

[Tc or Ac(n = 41)]

Thy:1093

TC:71.9%

TCD:92.5%

Thy:97%

NA

5yOS

TC:84.4%

TCD:84.4%

Thy:94.4%

Benny [16]

(2015)

229

TC:176

TNET:53

TC + TNET Resection 93%/

Debulking7%

NA

mOS

TC:85 m

TNET:117 m

Filosso [17]

(2016)

1247

TC:1042[Sq79%,other21%]

TNET:205[Tc(n = 49),Ac(n = 71),

LCNECorSCC(n = 49)]

100%

(1227/1227)

TC:60

TNET:54

5yOS/10yOS/5yRFS

TC:60/40/35%

TNET:68,1/39,5/34%

Zhao [18]

(2017)

343

TC:287

TCD:56 (Tc or Ac)

TC:90.6%

TCD:86.4%

TC:45.6

TCD:53.6

5yOS/5yDFS

TC:60.7/41.1%

TCD:80.7/37.6%

Wen [19]

(2018)

3947

TC:886 [well8.1%,Mod13.6%,Poor64.6%,Und13.6%]

TNET:293 [well41.5%,Mod25.8,%Poor21.4%,Und11.3%]

Thy:2788

TC:58.7%

TNET:66.9%

Thy:78.2%

NA

TC: NA

TNET: mCSS82.9 m,

mOS101.9 m

Song [20]

(2019)

362

TC:240

TNET:122

TC + TNET

Surgery of primary site 73.2%

NA

MST

TC:92 m

TNET:52 m

Bakhos [21](2020)

1489

TC:80.2%

TNET:19.8%

TC:55.3%

TNET:58.3%

NA

5yOS

TC:52%

TNET:62%

  1. *SCC is included in the TC Group in this paper
  2. TC, thymic carcinoma; Sq, squamous cell carcinoma; AdSq, adenosquamous carcinoma; TNET, thymic neuroendocrine tumors; Ac, atypical carcinoid; LCNEC, large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma; SCC, small cell carcinoma; undifferentiated carcinoma; TCD, thymic carcinoid; Thy, thymoma; Tc, atypical carcinoid; well, well differentiated; Mod, moderately differentiated; Poor, poorly differentiated; Und, undifferentiated; NA, not aveilable; OS, overall survival; DFS, disease-free survival; mOS, median overall survival; RFS; mCSS, median cancer-specific survival; MST, median survival time