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Case Reports

Lobectomy of Second Primary Cancer in Survivor of Small Cell Lung Cancer With Brain Metastasis

^a Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
^b Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Odawara Municipal Hospital, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan
^c Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Odawara Municipal Hospital, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan
^d Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yamachika Memorial General Hospital, Odawara, Japan

Accepted for publication July 9, 2008.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Nakamura, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan (Email: yus_naka{at}yahoo.co.jp).

Resection of a second primary nonsmall cell lung carcinoma in a long-term survivor of small cell lung carcinoma with brain metastasis is reported. The patient had squamous cell carcinoma as the second primary tumor and underwent lobectomy with node dissection. He was alive 79 months after the initial diagnosis of the small cell carcinoma, 64 months after the diagnosis of the brain metastasis, and 21 months after the curative pulmonary resection for his second primary carcinoma.