title: Ten-year survival after resection for lung carcinoma. Effect of blood transfusion and tumour stage on outcome.
abstract: The objectives were to evaluate the prognosis in resected lung cancer and to observe if perioperative blood transfusion adversely affects the prognosis. Of 208 patients with resection for lung cancer in 1978-1980, all but five were smokers: 127 had squamous cell and 81 non-squamous cell carcinoma. Stage I disease was found in 143 patients. (69%), stage II in 18 (9%) and stage IIIa in 47 (23%). Five-year survival was 52% in stage I, 29% in stage II and 7% in stage IIIa tumour; the respective 10-year rates were 37, 19 and 3%. Patients given perioperative blood transfusion (n = 95) had poorer prognosis than the non-transfused patients. According to Cox multivariate analysis, however, the relative risk of death was only slightly increased by perioperative transfusion (p = 0.07). In patients with stage II or IIIa carcinoma at diagnosis, this relative risk was 2.17 and 4.99 times higher than in stage I (p = 0.004 and p = 0.0001). Long-term survival thus was related to extent of the disease at diagnosis rather than to numbers of blood transfusions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, Finland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rainio
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bloigu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Satta
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pokela
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pääkkö
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011379:Prognosis; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome