Extract
Surgical treatment offers the best chances for long-term survival in patients with primary nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, long-term survival after surgery remains less than 50%, mostly due to a 30–77% rate of tumour recurrence. Unlike the distant type of recurrence that is treated nonsurgically in the vast majority of patients, local or loco-regional recurrence, which occurs in 4.6–24% of patients after complete resection (∼80% of cases in the first 2 years) [1], raises several concerns related to the optimal therapeutic approach.
Abstract
The second lung resection is a valuable option for post-operative lung cancer recurrence http://ow.ly/U8z3c
Footnotes
Conflict of interest: None declared.
- Received September 7, 2015.
- Accepted September 26, 2015.
- Copyright ©ERS 2016