[Surgical treatment of stage I lung cancer]

From analysis of the results of operative treatment of 177 patients with Stage I lung carcinoma (T1N0M0) the authors came to the conclusion that among all the existing methods of antineoplastic treatment surgery is the most effective one in differentiated tumours. Lobectomy is the operation of choice in patients with Stage I lung carcinoma. Economic resection of the lung is expedient and justified in elderly patients with Stage I peripheral carcinoma and concomitant diseases. The late-term results are evidence that surgical treatment of stage I (T1N0M0) lung carcinoma is oncologically justified: 5-year survival of patients was 64.6% after lobectomy and 67.5% after economic resection.