Lung Cancer

Aggressive Follow-Up Necessary to Locate Secondary Malignancies

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 9th, 2001

Aggressive surgical removal of second lung cancers resulted in five- and 10-year survival rates of 33% and 10%, respectively, among a series of 37 patients in a study published in the December 2000 issue of Chest.

John F. Keppel, MD, FCCP, along with five colleagues, from the Oregon Clinic, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, identified 37 patients with second lung cancers from a database of more than 800 people who had undergone lung cancer resection over the past two decades.

About 78% of the first cancers, which were non-small cell lung cancers, were stage 1A lesions, but 57% of the second cancers were more advanced. ...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2001-01-09)

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