2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.10.057
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Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Clinical Stage I Lung Cancer in Octogenarians

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“…Postoperative morbidity and mortality rates for octogenarians with NSCLC have been reported as 8.4% to 65.9% and 0 to 8.8%, respectively. [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]16,22,23] Our results were within the range reported in the literature.…”
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confidence: 87%
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“…Postoperative morbidity and mortality rates for octogenarians with NSCLC have been reported as 8.4% to 65.9% and 0 to 8.8%, respectively. [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]16,22,23] Our results were within the range reported in the literature.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 87%
“…Most of these reports are from Japan, since life expectancy of 80-yearolds is 8.5 years for males and 11 years for females in Japan, demonstrating that the Japanese population is aging. [10] There is also a recent study concerning pulmonary resection for NSCLC in nonagenarians. [18] Compared to Japanese, Turkish people have a mean life expectancy of 76 years.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Recently, several reports from Japan have shown that surgery for lung cancer in elderly people, including octogenarians, was a safe and feasible treatment. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Moreover, the number of lung cancer cases in nonagenarians is expected to increase rapidly in the near future, and then physicians will have to deal with these patients. However, there have been few reports 11) about the strategy for lung cancer treatment including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy for nonagenarians.…”
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confidence: 99%