title: [Surgical results in lung cancer in women].
abstract: The paper deals with the immediate and long-term results of treatment of 173 female and 1,330 male patients with lung cancer operated on at the Department of Lung and Mediastinal Tumors of the Institute in 1960-1979. The results of radical surgery were better in females: 5-year survival rate was 1.5 times that in males (44.4% vs 31.4%) whereas at 10 years it was twice as high (35.5 vs 17.2%).
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D000367:Age Factors; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000401:mortality; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D012426:Russia; D012737:Sex Factors
vernacular_title: Rezul'taty khirurgicheskogo lecheniia raka legkogo u zhenshchin.