Freise, G., Gabler, A., and Liebig, S. (1978). Thorax, 33,[228][229][230][231][232][233][234] (Table 1). Thirty-eight patients (8%) had tumours which were not resectable. Sixty-three (13-4%) died within the first four weeks after operation. Follow-up was not possible after discharge from hospital in 10 cases. The remaining 398 patients were followed up at outpatient consultations or from information sent by practitioners or other hospitals. One hundred and twenty-five patients (28-9%) survived five years; this survival rate is similar to those in other published studies.
ResultsThe incidence of bronchial carcinoma in women is less than in men. In our series, females represented 10% of all thoracotomies, which is an average rate (Buchberger and Jenny, 1967;Sriboonma, 1967;Kutschera, 1968). The reason why women have a better prognosis (Berndt, 1965;Watson, 1965) is uncertain. Our five-year survival rate in women is 34% and in men 27%. The women