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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2019 Dec;270(6):1161–1169. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002772

Figure 3. Noncancer-specific cumulative incidence of death curves by morbidity status and surgical approach.

Figure 3.

When dividing patients into three morbidity grade-based groups (black curve, no morbidity or CTCAE grade 1 morbidity; green curve, grade 2 morbidity; and blue curve, grade ≥3 morbidity) for those who have undergone MIS (left), there was no difference in NC-CID curves between the three groups; however, in patients who had undergone thoracotomy (right), there were significant difference between the groups (p <0.001) where the grade ≥3 morbidity group had higher risk of NC-CID.

Abbreviations: CTCAE, Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events; Grade, CTCAE grade; MIS, minimally invasive surgery; NC-CID, noncancer-specific cumulative incidence of death