|
KMID : 0982820020010010009
|
|
Journal of Lung Cancer
2002 Volume.1 No. 1 p.9 ~ p.14
|
|
|
Surgery for Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
|
|
Kim Young-Tae
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
Surgical resection of locally advanced lung cancer is a challenging subject for thoracic surgeons. Although the operative mortality and morbidity have recently decreased, extended pulmonary resection still remains a high-risk procedure. In selective patients an extended resection would offer an increased chance of a cure from the disease. The most important prognostic factors for a locally advanced lung cancer are the mediastinal lymph node status and the completeness of the resection. Careful preoperative evaluations are required, and every effort to achieve a negative resection margin is of utmost importance during the operation. The recent development of neoadjuvant chemotherapy seems to be promising, but to draw any conclusion regarding the long-term survival benefits, multi-centered randomized trials are mandatory.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
NSCLC, Surgery
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|