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Surgical Intervention for Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients with Pleural Carcinomatosis: Results From the Japanese Lung Cancer Registry in 2004

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Source URL: http://journals.lww.com/jto/Abstract/2015/07000/Surgical_Intervention_for_Non_Sm…

Author(s)

Iida, Tomohiko; Shiba, Mitsutoshi; Yoshino, Ichiro; Miyaoka, Etsuo; Asamura, Hisao; Date, Hiroshi; Okumura, Meinoshin; Tada, Hirohito; Nakanishi, Yoichi; Dosaka-Akita, Hirotoshi; Kobayashi, Hideo; Takahashi, Kazuhisa; Inoue, Masayoshi; Yokoi, Kohei; for the Japanese Joint Committee of Lung Cancer Registry

This study evaluated outcomes in patients undergoing resection for lung cancer who were found at surgery to have pleural carcinomatosis. 2.9% of registry patients were identified, of whom 49% had a macroscopic complete resection. 5-year survival in those without other metastatic disease was 29%. 5-year survival in those undergoing macroscopic complete resection was 37%.