title: [Mortality in operable lung cancer].
abstract: We have retrospectively examined the medical records and prospectively studied the survival of the 50 men and 26 women who underwent surgery for primary non-small cell lung cancer at our hospital during the period 1982 to 1986. Adenocarcinoma was the predominant histologic type of tumour (55%). Pneumonectomy was performed in only 17% of the cases. Surgery was considered to be radical in 54 patients. This was not dependent on sex, histology or type of resection. 60% of the patients were alive after three years. Almost all of them had undergone radical resection. The surviving patients (at follow-up 1 July, 1990) had been younger at the time of surgery and had a lower erythrocyte sedimentation rate than those who had died. As a group, however, they had not lived longer than those who died.
authors.affiliation: Lungeavdelingen, Rikshospitalet, Oslo.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Lund
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Johansen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rostad
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate
vernacular_title: Overlevelse ved operabel lungecancer.