title: [Diagnosis and surgical treatment for stage I non-small-cell lung cancer].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the results of surgery and the diagnosis of stage I non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
  
  
  METHODS
  The survival of 274 stage I NSCLC patients who underwent surgery from 1991 to 1998 were statistically analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier method. Comparison of the differences in survival rates among groups were made according to the Logrank test. The follow-up time was at least 5 years with a follow-up rate of 97.8%.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall 1-, 3-, 5-year survival rates for patients with pathologic stage I lesion were 92.9%, 79.6% and 66.1%. The 5-year survival rates for patients with squamous-cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, adenosquamous and alveolar-cell carcinoma were 73.3%, 55.3%, 52.2%, 71.7%, respectively. The 1-, 3-, 5-year survival rates for T1N0 were 95.0%, 83.2%, 74.3% whereas those of T2N0 lung lesions were 90.8%, 75.9%, 59.9% (P < 0.05). The 1-, 3-, 5-year survival rates of regular lobectomy were 94.1%, 79.3%, 67.5% and of conservative resection (segmentectomy and wedge resection) were 76.5%, 50.0%, 38.3% (P < 0.05). There was no perioperative mortality. The postoperative complications were: intrathoracic hemorrhage (2 patients, successfully treated by second thoracotomy) and chylothorax (1 patient, healed after conservative treatment).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The 5-year survival rate of pathologic stage I non-small-cell lung cancer is 66.1%. The outcome of patients with squamous-cell carcinoma (73.3%) is similar to that of alveolar-cell carcinoma (71.7%) which, however, is better than that of adenocarcinoma (55.3%) or adenosquamouscarcinoma (52.5%). The overwhelming superiority in result of IA (T1N0) lesion (74.3%) over the IB (T2N0) disease (59.9%) is quite impressive. Regular lobectomy plus radical mediastinal lymph node dissection is the appropriate management for stage I non-small-cell lung cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021.
authors.forename: Yu-Shun
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: De-Chao
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Ke-Lin
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Da-Wei
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ru-Gang
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D015996:Survival Rate