Abstract:The overall prognosis in patients with advanced and metastatic lung cancer is poor, however a subset of these patients has durable survival and they are called long-term survivors (LS). The definition of LS varies in published series from 18 months to 5 years. Few studies have focused on them. We report six cases of LS patients: three cases of non-small-cell lung cancer (stage IIIB and stage IV), two cases of small cell lung cancer, and a case of composite carcinoma (small cell carcinoma and squamous carcinoma… Show more
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