The survival and prognosis in patients with T_4 non-small cell lung cancer after surgery / 中华胸心血管外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To identify clinical prognostic predicators and surgery indicator of stage IIIb-T_4 in patients with lung cancer patients whose tumor invaded heart, main vessel or carina. Methods From 1988 to 2000,151 patients with pathological stage IIIb-T_4 lung cancer who underwent resection by Shandong Provincial Hospital were analyzed as control samples, 112 patients with pathological stage IIIa-T_3N_1M_0 who underwent resection at the same time were also analyzed. Factors were estimated from the date of operation using the Kaplan-Meier and Log rank analysis. The Cox regression model evaluated the influence of factors on the survival. Results The median survival period were 26.1 months and the overall of 1-year, 3-year and 5-year survivals of the 151 patients were 73.5%, 33.1% and 16.6% respectively.The significant prognostic factors (P