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The Lancet

Volume 292, Issue 7575, 2 November 1968, Pages 925-927
The Lancet

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
RESULTS OF RESECTION FOR OAT-CELL CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG

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Abstract

275 cases of oat-cell carcinoma from a series of 1773 thoracotomies for carcinoma of the bronchus over a fifteen-year period have been reviewed. The resection-rate was 58% and a two-year survival rate of 10·6% for the series. When a lobectomy was performed 32% were alive at two years, and at least 18% will be alive after five years. The corresponding figures for pneumonectomy were 14·4% and 7·2%, respectively. Although the long-term-survival rate of any form of treatment is poor, in this series there were sufficient late survivors to conclude that surgery still has an important place in the treatment of this condition.

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