CONTEXT For the majority of patients, ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas remains a lethal disease. Currently, surgical extirpation for localized disease offers the only chance for long-term survival. CASE REPORT We report a patient who underwent successful resection of isolated lung metastasis occurring 13 years after pancreatic cancer resection. A 59-year-old woman underwent distal pancre...

OBJECTIVE Major surgery is immunosuppressive and could have an impact on postoperative tumor immunosurveillance and recurrence in cancer patients. Low circulating levels of insulin growth factor binding protein (IGFBP)-3 have been linked to advance prostate and the development of colonic cancers. This prospective study examined the early postoperative circulating levels of IGFBP-3, matrix metal...

BACKGROUND For small peripheral c-T1N0M0 non-small cell lung cancers involving multiple segments, we have conducted a resection of subsegments belonging to different segments, i.e. combined subsegmentectomy (CSS), to avoid resection of multiple segments or lobectomy. Tumor size, location of tumor, and forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) of each preserved lobe were compared among the CSS...

The general principle followed in resection for pulmonary tuberculosis is to preserve as much functioning lung parenchyma as possible. A segmental resection has therefore always been preferred to an upper lobectomy. The aim of this paper is to report the functional result obtained after different resections in order to ascertain the value of leaving one segment of the upper lobe. Earlier invest...

BACKGROUND Few patients with lung metastases from colorectal cancer (CRC) are candidates for surgical therapy with a curative intent, and it is currently impossible to identify those who may benefit the most from thoracotomy. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of various parameters on survival after pulmonary metastasectomy for CRC. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis...

Background. Small-sized lung cancers showing a wide area of ground-grass opacity (GGO) on thin-section computed tomography (CT) are considered to be a good candidate for limited surgical resection, because of its minimally invasive nature. On the other hand, the validity of limited resection for radiologically “solid” tumors is still controversial in small-sized non-small cell lung carcinoma. M...