title: [Influence of prognostic factors on the survival of lung cancer patients].
abstract: This study presents the results of analysis of 134 lung cancer patients treated with radiotherapy in 1999-2002. The objective of the paper was to evaluate the importance of some prognostic factors on survival of lung cancer patients. We have analyzed influence of patient's age, stage of the disease, tumor size, lymphnodes status, histological type and radiotherapy dose to the survival of lung cancer patients. Among analyzed patients 87% were males and 73.9% were more than 60 years old. Locally advanced lung cancer was diagnosed in 65.6% of cases. The non-small cell lung cancer was diagnosed in 83.8% of cases. During the study period 58.2% of patients died. Statistically significant prognostic factors in our study were: stage, locally advanced lung cancer, involvement of the lymphnodes, III B and IV of the disease. The survival of the patients depends on the radiotherapy dose in our study. The better survival was associated with the bigger than 50 Gy dose (p<0.001).
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Oncology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania. aistp@failanas.lt
authors.forename: Aista
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Plieskiene
authors.forename: Elona
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Juozaityte
authors.forename: Arturas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Inciūra
authors.forename: Laimonas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jarusevicius
authors.forename: Donatas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mazuolis
authors.forename: Raimundas
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sakalauskas
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D011379:Prognosis; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Serganciuju plauciu veziu prognoziniu veiksniu itaka gyvenimo trukmei.