Tumor size distribution is illustrated in Figure 1 ... Ten additional patients died from causes unrelated to lung cancer. Survival for patients with tumors ≤ 2.0 cm was 77.2% (95% CI, 68.6 ...

By Kaplan-Meier analysis, tumor size was a significant predictor of both overall (p = 0.03) and disease-specific (p = 0.02) mortality. However, tumor size approached but did not attain statistical ...