Metachronous cancers or late recurrences after resection of stage I lung cancer.
In 2 patients with stage I lung cancer, tumors recurred at their resection lines 10 years after the original surgical resections. These cases suggest that the prognosis of late cancer occurrences after resected primary lung malignancies might be related to the interval of time between primary and subsequent cancers rather than to their categorization as recurrent or metachronous cancers.
Lenner
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Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York 10029, USA. egandrobi@aol.com
Teirstein
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Krellenstein
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