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Ann Thorac Surg 1988;46:24-28
© 1988 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Surgical Management of Lung Cancer with Solitary Cerebral Metastasis

Divisions of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and of Neurological Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

^* Address reprint requests to Dr. Hankins, University of Maryland Medical System, 22 S Greene St, Baltimore, MD 21201

Between 1964 and 1986, 19 patients underwent resection of both a primary lung cancer and the associated brain metastasis. One patient underwent resection of 2 separate primary lung cancers and the associated metastases. The 12 men and 7 women ranged in age from 42 to 67 years (mean, 54.6 years). The cell type was adenocarcinoma in 12 tumors, squamous or adenosquamous cell in 5, large cell undifferentiated or anaplastic in 2, and malignant carcinoid in 1 tumor. The types of resection were as follows: lobectomy for 12 neoplasms, pneumonectomy for 5, bilobectomy for 2, and wedge resection for 1 neoplasm. Radiotherapy to the brain was given in connection with sixteen of the twenty craniotomies. The patient with 2 separate primary neoplasms survived 19 years before dying 5 months after the second craniotomy. The mean survival is 8.0 ± 2.1 years (± the standard error), and the median survival is 1.67 years. Survival at 1 year was 65 ± 10.7% and at 5 years, 45 ± 11.1%.

On univariate analysis, the following factors were found to correlate significantly with longer survival: a lung tumor in Stage I or II; negative mediastinal nodes; curative rather than palliative resection of the lung tumor; and age younger than 55 years. However, on multivariate analysis, only curative resection was a significant factor (p < 0.01). We believe these results justify continued application of this combined surgical approach to patients having limited-stage lung cancer with a solitary brain metastasis.

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