Extensive and combined operations of lung cancer
Drukin, E.Ia.
Voprosy Onkologii 26(4): 104-108
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0507-3758 PMID: 7376539 Document Number: 165018
Patients (218) were operated upon for lung cancer. The postoperative mortality was 15.2%. Among those who died at the hospital the operation was not radical enough in 34.9%. Distinguishing between extensive and combined operations seems to be warranted due to different postoperative mortality and, mainly, due to better late results following the combined operations. A 3 yr survival for the whole group was 16%; a 5 yr survival was 10.3%. In patients with metastases a 3 yr survival was 6.3%, a 5 yr survival was 6.25%. Without metastases a 3 yr survival was 24.5; a 5 yr survival was 15.4%. Extensive and combined operations are warranted irrespective of the histological tumor structure in cases without any metastases in lymph nodes, but only in squamous cell cancer with lymph node metastases. Taking into account an unfavorable prognosis, these operations should be referred to as conventionally radical.