title: [Results of surgical treatment of lung cancer in patients over 70 years old].
abstract: Results of surgical treatment of 345 patients (210 men--61%; 135 women--39%) over 70 years with non-small-cell lung cancer were analyzed. Central lung cancer was diagnosed in 141 (40.9%), peripheral--in 204 (59.1%) patients. Squamous cell cancer was seen in 233 (67.3%), glandular--in 67 (19.4%), dimorphic--in 22 (6.5%), large-cell--in 23 (6.8%) patients. Stage I of the disease was diagnosed in 121 (35.1%); stage II--in 49 (14.1%); stage III--in 175 (50.8%) patients. Rate of postoperative complications in the study group was 27.8%, lethality--6.4%. The highest lethality was after combined pneumonectomy. The most frequent postoperative complications were pneumonia (7.5%), arrhythmia (10.1%), pulmonary-heart insufficiency (4.9%). Five-year survival after radical surgery in patients over 70 years with lung cancer was 49%, in patients with stage I of the disease this parameter was the highest--71.4%.
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Chkhikvadze
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Sokolova
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Lisitskiĭ
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Klimov
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Gass
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Rukavichnikov
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D000075202:Contraindications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome