Life expectancy of lung cancer patients registered at the Leningrad City Oncological Dispensary in 1968
Drukin, E.I.; Iaritsyn, S.S.
Voprosy Onkologii 27(5): 75-80
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0507-3758 PMID: 6454299 Document Number: 180430
Out of 1,240 lung cancer patients, a five-year survival was registered in 5.2% of cases (0.5% of unoperated patients, 34.3% of radically-operated among those who underwent surgery and 39.5% of patients discharged from hospital after operation). No relationship between the sex and age unoperated patients and prognosis was established. Among those radically-operated, 34.8% of young all 28% of aged patients survived for five years. Resectability should be considered the only reliable criterion of evaluation of diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.