Impact of Previous Malignancy on Outcome in Surgically Resected Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: Due to the fact that treatment history of extrathoracic malignancy was not associated with post-surgical lung cancer recurrence, proposing curative resection could be justifiable if the previous cancer is deemed cured or controlled. However, the results showing that patients with previous cancer history have a worse survival rate than those without, should be taken into account when curative surgery is considered.
PMID: 31421101 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - August 13, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Nakao K, Anraku M, Karasaki T, Kitano K, Nagayama K, Sato M, Nakajima J Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research