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Ann Thorac Surg 1989;47:391-393
© 1989 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
Accepted for publication August 2, 1988.
* Address reprint requests ro Dr Antkowiak, Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, 666 Elm St. Buffalo, NY 14263.
Eighty-nine patients aged 19 to 39 years were treated for bronchogenic carcinoma at Roswell Park Memorial Institute between 1973 and 1983. The male to female ratio was 1.6:1. The vast majority of patients were habitual cigarette smokers. Forty-four patients (49%) had adenocarcinoma or bronchoalveolar cell carcinoma. Twenty-seven (30%) had large cell undifferentiated carcinoma. Nine (10%) had small cell carcinoma and 6 (7%), squamous cell carcinoma. At the time of diagnosis, 2 patients (2%) had stage I disease, 3 (3%) had stage II disease, 30 (34%) had stage IIIA disease, 28 (32%) had stage IIIB disease, and 26 (29%) had stage IV disease. Only 3 patients survive. Median survival of all patients was 7.5 months. Median survival of patients whose tumor was surgically resected was 17.5 months. Advanced stage of disease at the time of diagnosis characterized this group of young patients with primary cancer of the lung. The brief duration of symptoms and the poor survival suggest this is a more aggressive tumor in younger patients than in older patients.
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