[Results of surgical treatment for large cell carcinoma of the lung].
Twenty-six patients with histologically confirmed large cell carcinoma of the lung were evaluated. The overall five-year survival of these cases was 19.9%. Fifteen patients who had undergone surgical resection, excluding one operative death, had a five-year survival rate of 33.8%. None of the nonresected cases survived more than six months after the beginning of treatment. Among prognostic factors in surgical treatment of large cell carcinoma, survival correlated well with clinical stage, extent of lymph-node metastasis, curative resection and histological subtypes. As for histological subtypes, stratified subtype by division of nongiant cell carcinoma revealed poorer prognosis than that of nonstratified subtype and appeared to have some correlation with the frequency of vascular invasion by the tumor. From the clinical viewpoint, giant cell carcinoma should be regarded as a distinct clinical entity. Two cases, however, had benefit of long-term survival due to surgical modality. The clinicopathological analysis of those cases remains to be resolved in the future.
Matsumura
K
K
Sawada
K
K
Fukuma
S
S
Seki
Y
Y
Ishida
I
I
Kuwabara
T
T
Maruyama
T
T
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis