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  • Title: [Long-term results following resection for T3 non-small cell lung cancer].
    Author: Maniwa Y, Okada M, Yamamoto H.
    Journal: Kyobu Geka; 1998 Oct; 51(11):939-43. PubMed ID: 9789424.
    Abstract:
    Surgical intervention is routinely employed for non-small cell lung cancer, whenever no distant metastasis is found. However, its surgical results depend on the staging of the lung cancer, and surgery for stage III disease is less effective compared with stage I or II disease. For patients with stage III, some treatments such as induction chemotherapy have been tried to support the surgery. Recently, T3 lung cancer is divided in two category of staging, T3N0 is evaluated to be stage II B and T3N1-2 is stage III A. In this study, we classified T3 diseases by some factors, and examined long-term survival of each group. As a result, we concluded that mediastinal invasion and N2 involvement were risk factors to early failure. On the contrary, patients with adjacent lobe invasion and resection of two lobes led to the prolonged survival rather than lobectomy with partial resection of adjacent lobe.
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