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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:1688-1689. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.075
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Original Articles: General Thoracic

Invited Commentary

Joachim Pfannschmidt, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Thoraxklinik am Universitaetsklinikum, Amalienstr 5, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany

(Email: joachim.pfannschmidt@thoraxklinik-heidelberg.de).

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In this large contemporary series involving 376 patients, Onaitis and colleagues [1] discuss clinical prognostic factors for recurrence-free survival after pulmonary metastasectomy for colorectal cancer metastases. Because there are only a few large and contemporary studies on recurrent-free survival after pulmonary metastasectomy, the resulting article is of particular value.

It has been clearly shown that the prognosis is significantly impaired if the number of pulmonary metastases exceeds two, the disease-free interval is less than 1 year, age is younger than 65 years at time of metastasectomy, and if the patient is of female gender.

More than 50% of all patients were . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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