Small peripheral lung cancers (2 cm or less maximum diameter) are often surgically resected, and the survival rate of those patients has been reported to be significantly higher than that of patients with tumors 2.1 cm or more in diameter. We evaluated the status of these small tumors diagnosed during surgery, following unsuccessful transbronchial biopsy procedures. In a retrospective study, 84...

Lung cancer is one of the leading cancers for both genders all over the world. It is the most common cause of cancer death and almost reaches 20% of the total. The incidence of lung cancer has significantly increased from the early 19th century. In this manuscript we have discussed various data mining techniques that have been utilised for cancer diagnosis. The lung cancer pathologic staging is...

The lung cancer is one of the most dangerous cancers and is also the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, accounting for about 1.3 million deaths annually. However in clinical practice, lung cancer therapies commonly do with chemotherapy, although it is hard because the lung cancer may progress to metastasis stage. The metastasis of lung cancer is highly dependent of expression of matrix me...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of surgery for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer is limited, although recent studies suggest that preoperative chemotherapy may improve survival. We conducted a randomized trial to examine the possible benefit of preoperative chemotherapy and surgery for the treatment of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. METHODS We studied 60 patients (59 men and 1 woman...

BACKGROUND The thoracic surgery scoring system (Thoracoscore) is a multivariate scoring system with nine parameters used for predicting inpatient mortality after thoracic surgery. In clinical practice, the value of the thoracoscore in evaluating the fitness of individual patients for surgery is not clear. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to evaluate the performance of thoracoscore in evaluat...

Although about 50% of lung cancers have distant metastasis at the time of initial diagnosis, colonic metastases are extremely rare. This report presents a rare clinical case of colonic metastasis from primary squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. A 60-year-old female with anorexia and fatigue was referred to the department of pulmonary surgery in our hospital. The patient was diagnosed with prim...

Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (HPO) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome that is frequently associated with lung cancer; however, the incidence of clinically apparent HPO is not well known. The clinical data of 6,151 patients with advanced lung cancer between January 1996 and December 2008 were retrospectively analyzed in Zhejiang Cancer Hospital (Hangzhou, China). Data pertaining to the...

the lung cancer is one of the most dangerous cancers and is also the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, accounting for about 1.3 million deaths annually. however in clinical practice, lung cancer therapies commonly do with chemotherapy, although it is hard because the lung cancer may progress to metastasis stage. the metastasis of lung cancer is highly dependent of expression of matrix me...

A best evidence topic in cardiac surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was whether combined surgical procedures in one or two stages are the best surgical treatment strategy in patients with simultaneous coronary artery disease and lung cancer. Altogether, 264 papers were found using the reported search; of which, 15 represented the best evidence to answ...