Survival and prognostic factors of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer in Central and Eastern Europe: A prospective cohort study.
Mahdi SheikhShama ViraniHilary A RobbinsLenka ForetovaIvana HolcatovaVladimir JanoutJolanta LissowskaMarie NavratilovaAnush MukeriyaMiodrag OgnjanovicBeata SwiatkowskaDavid ZaridzePaul J BrennanPublished in: Cancer medicine (2023)
This study shows that the 5-year survival rate of surgically-resected stage I-IIIA NSCLC is still around 50% in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to non-modifiable prognostic factors, lifetime patterns of smoking and alcohol drinking affected the risk of death and disease progression in a dose-dependent manner in this population.