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KMID : 0378120030300020115
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Chungnam Medical Journal
2003 Volume.30 No. 2 p.115 ~ p.126
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Factors Affecting Survival Rate of Lung Cancer Patients
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Hyun Mi-Kyoung
Lee Tae-Yong
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Abstract
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This study was performed to know the survival rate and prognostic factors of lung cancer patient who were hospitalized in E university hospital among records in Daejeon cancer registry between 1993 to 2001. There were no differences between man and woman in terms of 1-year and 3-year survival rate. There was no difference between the survival rate of smoker and that of non-smoker. The survival rate of patients having hypertension was significantly different from that of patients not having hypertension. At the time of diagnosis, coughing, dyspnoea and chest pain were the most frequent clinical symptoms of these patients, but there were no differences in 1-year and 3-year survival rate according to the existence of these symptoms. The upper lobe was most frequent primary site of lung cancer. The survival rate of the patients whose primary site was the middle lobe was highest. The survival rate of squamous cell carcinoma was highest. Statistical significance according to the clinical symptoms of a patient demonstrated the symptoms such as coughing, dyspnoea or chest pain were related to the survival rate. Also it demonstrated that the prognostic factors such as age, primary lesion, and histology type affects the survival rate statistically significantly.
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KEYWORD
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Survival rate, Lung cancer, Prognostic factor
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