[Studies on cases of resection of cardiac carcinoma]

We studied 53 cases of cardiac carcinoma resected at our hospital during the past 15 years. The five-year survival rate of patients undergoing curative resection was 62.5%. But that of esophagocardiac carcinoma died due to recurrence after the curative resection. In such cases, recurrence was often observed in the thoracic cavity, especially in those who survived more than two years postoperatively. Therefore, in surgery for esophagocardiac carcinoma, sufficient mediastinal lymph node removal is necessary.