title: [Surgery of lung cancer (data from the Moscow Hertzen Research Oncological Institute)].
abstract: The authors analyze results of the surgical treatment of pulmonary cancer for 35 years (1947-1981). Operations were fulfilled in 2269 patients, in 1869 of them the operations were radical. The resectability increased from 59,2% (1947-1959) to 92,4% (1973-1981). The postoperative lethality decreased from 15,1% to 7,0%, at the period of 1980-1981 it was 3,7%. The specific weight of preserving operations, lobectomies, resection and plasty of bronchi included, increased from 3,9% to 59,7%. The ways for further improvement of results of the surgical treatment of pulmonary cancer are shown.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009031:Moscow; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Khirurgiia raka legkogo (po materialam Moskovskogo nauchno-issledovatel'skogo onkologicheskogo instituta im. P. A. Gertsena).