[Following operated bronchial cancers. Personal experience. Outlook for the future (author's transl)].
Between 1968 and 1976, the authors operated 573 bronchial cancers. They appreciate the way they were followed up. It revealed that an average of 68% of operated patients were seen again but that the consulting frequency decreased as time passed. Very often, controls were only radio-clinical; hospital admission tended to decrease. The frequency of examinations, respectively 2.6 and 2.4 yearly controls during the first two post-operative years, appeared insufficient because metastases and local recurrences were detected mostly during this period. The efficiency of the treatment of these lesions depends on an early diagnosis. A schedule control of the disease could be drawn out of this study.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011379:Prognosis
La surveillance du cancer bronchique opéré. Expérience personnelle. Perspectives d'avenir.