1. [The role of surgery in the treatment of small cell lung cancer].
- Author
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Puma F, Urbani M, Santoprete S, Ricci F, Sanguinetti A, Vinci D, Ottavi P, Porcaro G, and Daddi G
- Subjects
- Aged, Antineoplastic Agents therapeutic use, Carcinoma, Small Cell drug therapy, Combined Modality Therapy, Female, Humans, Lung Neoplasms drug therapy, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Staging, Carcinoma, Small Cell surgery, Lung Neoplasms surgery
- Abstract
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a biologically aggressive tumor with a low long-term survival rate. SCLC is highly responsive to chemotherapy and surgery has a very limited role in its treatment because the disease is usually widely disseminated at the diagnosis. Good results from surgery have been reported in the small subgroup of T1-2 N0 M0 patients. In N1 peripheral SCLC, surgery in combination with other treatments, can obtain fair results. Surgical treatment does not influence the prognosis in SCLC as stage III and IV.
- Published
- 2001