Abstract

The aim of the study: to examine the relationship between the morphological diversity of non-small cell lung cancer and the frequency of lymph node metastasis in groups of patients with different epithelial conditions in the bronchi adjacent to the tumor. Material and methods. Surgical specimens from 90 patients with non-small cell lung cancer, who were treated in the Thoracoabdominal Department Of The Research Institute Of Oncology Of The Tomsk National Research Medical Center in the period from 2009 to 2017 were studied. The histological type of cancer was determined according to the who classification (2020). Lepidic, acinar, papillary, micropapillary, solid and solitary tumor cells were isolated in the parenchymal component of adenocarcinoma. In the parenchymal component of squamous cell carcinoma, 5 types of structures were distinguished: with keratinization, consisting of atypical cells of the prickly type without keratinization, consisting of atypical cells of the basaloid type, built of atypical cells with pronounced polymorphism, single tumor cells. Results. In patients with isolated basal cell hyperplasia, acinar (37 %), papillary (29 %) and solid (27 %) patterns were found less frequently in cases with metastatic regional lymph nodes compared to those without metastatic lymph nodes (63 %; p=0.05; 71 %; p=0.05; 73 %; p=0.01, respectively). In patients with isolated basal cell hyperplasia of the bronchial epithelium, in cases with the presence of lymph node metastasis in the parenchymal component of squamous cell carcinoma, structures 1 (with keratinization) (17 %), 2 (spiky pattern) (33 %) and 4 (polymorphic pattern) (29 %) were less frequently detected compared to those without metastases in regional lymph nodes (83 %; p=0.01; 67 %; p=0.02 and 71 %; p=0.01, respectively). In patients with a combination of basal cell hyperplasia and squamous metaplasia, a spiny pattern (65 %), a basaloid pattern (100 %), a polymorphic pattern (82 %) and single tumor cells (89 %) were more frequently detected in cases with metastatic lymph nodes than in cases without metastatic lymph nodes (35 %; р=0.04; 0 %; р=0.01; 18 %; р=0.01; 11 %; р=0.01, respectively). Conclusion. The data obtained clarify the available information on the significance of the morphological heterogeneity of the tumor for predicting the course of adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung.

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