[The role of the surgical approach in the treatment of microcellular carcinoma of the lung].
Twenty-nine patients with small-cell lung cancer undergoing surgery during a 5-year period at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb were reviewed. The radical surgical procedure was performed in 22 patients (73.9%). The median survival of these patients was 26.5 months. Two-year survival was 36.4% (eight of 22 patients) and in patients after radical surgery, the four-year survival rate was 18.2% (four of 22 patients). Three patients were alive at the time when this paper was written (60, 59, and 57 months after the initial diagnosis). It is concluded that the surgical therapy is an important part in the multi-disciplinary approach to the treatment of small-cell lung cancer with limited stage.
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