Is Spread Through Air Spaces should be considered as a staging profile in future staging system?

We read with great interest the study by Szu-Yen Hu and colleagues [1].This retrospective study identified that the presence of spread through air spaces (STAS) might be considered as a staging profile of lung adenocarcinomas in future staging system, because STAS was significantly correlated with several invasive clinicopathological characteristics(e.g., higher T, N stages, moderate/poor differentiation and the presence of lymphovascular invasion ) in multivariate analysis for resected lung adenocarcinoma.
Source: Lung Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Source Type: research