title: [Lung cancer before 40 years and after 80 years: surgical aspects].
abstract: Lung cancer rarely affects patients at the extreme ages of life. However, changes in epidemiology and therapy led us to review characteristics of both these younger and older populations. We retrospectively reviewed epidemiologic, clinical and pathological characteristics of patients aged 40 years or less (group 1, n=113) and 80 years or more (group 2, n=78) who underwent surgery between 1983 and 2003. Carcinoid tumors were more frequent in the group 1 (n=59 vs 5). Non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) occurrence rates decreased with time in group 1, whereas increasing rates were observed in group 2 (p=0.0017). Concomitant diseases were significantly more frequent in group 2. The pneumonectomy rates of non small cell lung cancer were the same in each group (group 1, 35.5%; group 2, 34.8%). Five-year survival rates were better in group 1 (58.9% vs 30%, p=0.0048). No 5-year survival was observed for N2 disease in group 2 and mortality unrelated to cancer was more frequent in this group. Otherwise, both groups were similar except for higher rates of adenocarcinomas in group 1. Lung cancer is more and more frequent in the octogenarians. Surgery remains the best treatment in this population except in case of stage III due to N2 involvement.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Thoracique, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, 20 rue Leblanc, Paris Cedex 15.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Foucault
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Berna
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bagan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mostapha
authors.forename: J-C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Das Neves-Pereira
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Riquet
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013997:Time Factors