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Ann Thorac Surg 1975;20:501-510
© 1975 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Relationship of Cell Type and Lymph Node Metastasis to Survival After Resection of Bronchial Carcinoma

Thomas W. Shields, M.D.a,*, James Yee, M.D.b, J. Harold Conn, M.D.c, C. Dennis Robinette, Ph.D.d

a Northwestern University Medical School, and the Surgical Service, Veterans Administration Lakeside Hospital, Chicago, Ill.
b Northwestern University Medical School the Surgical Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Martinez, Calif.
c Northwestern University Medical School the Surgical Service, Veterans Administration Center, Jackson, Miss.
d Northwestern University Medical School the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

* Address reprint requests to Dr. Shields, Surgical Service, Veterans Administration Lakeside Hospital, 333 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611

In the completed adjuvant chemotherapy lung trials conducted by the Veterans Administration Surgical Group, the cell type was recorded in 2,341 of 2,349 curative resections; extent of lymph node involvement was known in all cases. Nodes were normal in 1,231 patients. Five- and ten-year survival computed by the life-table method was 33.7% and 20.4%, respectively. These rates were significantly greater than the 16.2% and 8.8% recorded in 1,118 patients whose nodes showed metastases. Among patients whose cell type was known, five-year survival in 484 with hilar node involvement was 17.4% and was not significantly different from 20.1% in 364 patients in whom only lobar nodes were involved. The survival was 8.9% in 268 patients with cancer in the mediastinal nodes; this was significantly worse than either of the aforementioned groups.

A five-year survival of 26.8% in 1,482 patients with squamous cell carcinoma was greater than the 24.3% in 359 with adenocarcinoma and 22.4% in 500 with undifferentiated cell types, but the differences were not significant. Variations between these groups remained nonsignificant when nodes were normal and were of only borderline significance, at the 5% level, when they showed metastasis.

When a curative resection has been accomplished, cell type as classified in this study has little bearing on long-term survival, whereas the presence of node metastasis as well as its location is of the utmost importance.




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