The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 70, 581-589, Copyright © 1975 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Long-term survival in bronchogenic carcinoma
GL Ashor, WH Kern, BW Meyer, GG Lindesmith, QR Stiles, BL Tucker and JC Jones
In this report, we shall review the clinical and pathological features of
64 patients who survived 10 years or longer after resection for
bronchogenic carcinoma. Most of these patients had either adenocarcinoma or
bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. None of them had oat cell carcinoma. In many
of the long-term survivors, there were pathological findings generally
considered to indicate a poor chance for survival. Thus we believe that
curative resection for bronchogenic carcinoma should be attempted whenever
feasible to offer the patient every hope of long-term survival.