title: The adenosquamous lung carcinoma: clinical and pathological characteristics.
abstract: The adenosquamous carcinoma is a rare combined tumour of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The survival prognosis of surgically treated patients with adenosquamous carcinoma and patients with squamous cell carcinoma, large cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma were compared during a study. Two hundred and seventyfive patients who had been treated surgically because of primary lung cancer in the Department of Thoracic-Surgery at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg between 1980 and 1989 were evaluated. The five year survival study of 172 patients who underwent resection because of squamous cell carcinoma was 45%, the one of patients with adenocarcinoma (n = 84) was 27%. 26% was the five year survival rate of the patients (n = 9) with large cell carcinoma. Of 13 patients (4%) with adenosquamous carcinoma none survived five years after surgical treatment. The two year survival rate was 28%. The presented results demonstrate the poor survival prognosis of patients suffering from adenosquamous carcinoma and ask for an adjuvant therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Knolle
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Neef
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D018196:Carcinoma, Adenosquamous / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate