PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - SHINICHIRO OKAUCHI AU - HIROKO WATANABE AU - HIDEYASU YAMADA AU - SHINYA SATO AU - KUNIHIKO MIYAZAKI AU - TAKAHIDE KODAMA AU - HIROAKI SATOH AU - NOBUYUKI HIZAWA TI - The Prognosis of Lung Cancer With Different Metastatic Patterns AID - 10.21873/anticanres.13969 DP - 2020 Jan 01 TA - Anticancer Research PG - 421--426 VI - 40 IP - 1 4099 - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/40/1/421.short 4100 - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/40/1/421.full SO - Anticancer Res2020 Jan 01; 40 AB - Background/Aim: Distant organ metastases do not occur at random in lung cancer. A retrospective study was conducted in order to evaluate 1) what kinds of metastatic patterns exist in three different types of lung cancer, and 2) whether metastatic patterns affected prognosis in the different types of lung cancer. Patients and Methods: Data were collected from all consecutive patients with diagnosed lung cancer between April 2009 and October 2018 in our hospitals. Cluster analysis was performed to classify patients. Kaplan-Meier analysis, log-rank test, and Cox proportional hazards model were used. Results: Epidermal growth factor-mutated adenocarcinoma, small cell lung cancer, and squamous cell lung cancer had different ‘metastatic patterns’, survival, and unfavorable prognostic factors, respectively. Conclusion: There might be different metastatic patterns, survival, and unfavorable prognostic factors in each pathological and genetic type of lung cancer. It is worthwhile carrying out diagnostic imaging and treatment considering information on metastatic patterns.