This study suggests that female gender exerts a significant positive effect on survival following lung resection for NSCLC. This effect is pronounced at early disease stage and persists after adjusting for important differences in the clinical, histo-pathological features and extent of pulmonary resection between male and female patients.
Advanced age, impaired preoperative respiratory function and a tumour high in the oesophagus are associated with a significantly increased risk of death after oesophagectomy for carcinoma.
Pneumonectomy for NSCLC carries a considerable, but acceptable, operative mortality and provides an important survival benefit. This study suggests that older age and BPF are major determinants of an unfavourable in-hospital outcome; older age, BPF, adenocarcinoma cell type and higher pathological stage significantly reduce the probability of a long-term survival.
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