Surgical Treatment for Metachronous Lung Cancers

Surgical treatment of metachronous nonsmall cell lung cancer.

PURPOSE We report surgical results of metachronous nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS We report mortality and analyze prognostic factors for overall survival in patients with metachronous NSCLC at Nippon Medical School from July 1982 to July 2008. RESULTS Thirty-three out of 1726 patients (1.9%) who underwent lung resection had metachronous NSCLC. Mortality rate was 10%. On univaria...

[Diagnosis and surgical treatment of metachronous second primary lung cancer].

OBJECTIVE To review the experience of the diagnosis, surgical treatment and prognosis of metachronous second primary lung cancers. METHODS Between January 1983 and April 2004, 32 patients with metachronous second primary lung cancers were operated in our department. Clinical data of all these patients were reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS The initial procedures for their first primary lung...

Surgical resection of synchronous and metachronous lung and liver metastases of colorectal cancers

PURPOSE Surgical resection of isolated hepatic or pulmonary metastases of colorectal cancer is an established procedure, with a 5-year survival rate of about 50%. However, the role of surgical resections in patients with both hepatic and pulmonary metastases is not well established. We aimed to analyze overall survival of these patients and associated factors. METHODS Data retrospectively col...

Metachronous primary cancers of colon and stomac

Lobectomy for metachronous lung cancer after pneumonectomy.

Second primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a well-known disease in patients having undergone successful NSCLC resection. Surgery for patients with cancer in the residual lung after pneumonectomy should not be excluded automatically. However, surgery on a single residual lung is usually done by wedge resection or segmentectomy, whereas lobectomy remains somewhat exceptional. We report ...