作者
Hiroshi Sugimura, Francis C Nichols, Ping Yang, Mark S Allen, Stephen D Cassivi, Claude Deschamps, Brent A Williams, Peter C Pairolero
发表日期
2007/2/1
期刊
The Annals of thoracic surgery
卷号
83
期号
2
页码范围
409-418
出版商
Elsevier
简介
BACKGROUND
Survival characteristics of patients who have recurrent nonsmall-cell lung cancer after surgical resection are not well understood. Little objective evidence exists to justify treatment for these patients.
METHODS
We prospectively followed 1,361 consecutive patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer who underwent complete surgical resection at our institution from January 1997 to December 2001. Only patients having recurrent cancer were included in the analysis. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models were used to evaluate the effect of prognostic factors on postrecurrence survival.
RESULTS
Follow-up was achieved in 1,073 patients, and recurrent cancer developed in 445. Complete information was available on 390 patients for analysis. There were 262 men and 128 women. Median age at time of recurrence was 69 years. Median time from surgical resection to recurrence was 11.5 months …
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