Experience with mass screening for lung carcinoma.
The 5-year-survival of 128 primary lung cancer patients was studied between 1970 and 1976. In all patients mediastinoscopy was carried out without any mortality or morbidity. Asymptomatic stage I (TNM classification) patients having a squamous cell carcinoma had the best 5 year survival: 46.3% as against 9.5% and 0% of the stage II and III patients. The resectability rate was 58.6% with a perioperative mortality of 7.5%. This suggests the importance of further evaluation of mass screening for lung carcinoma despite the statistical shortcomings of a retrospective study.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012189:Retrospective Studies