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Surgical treatment of pulmonary metastases: experience with 40 patients
J Rafael de la Haba Rodríguez1, J Algar Algar, M José Méndez Vidal
1Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain. juanhaba@ene.es
Abstract
Aims:
Combinations of surgery and chemotherapy have a favourable impact on survival in the treatment of disseminated neoplastic disease isolated to the lung. Sample and technical factors have made the reproduction of the published results difficult.
Methods:
In this study we report experience over 10 years.
Results:
From 1989 to 1999 40 patients underwent metastasectomy. Thirty received chemotherapy. The median survival is 51 months, similar to other published series.
Conclusion:
Survival benefit can be observed in small series of such cases.