Survival significance of coexisting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients with early lung cancer after curative surgery.
Hisashi SajiTomoyuki MiyazawaHiroki SakaiYusuke KimuraMasataka TsudaYoichi WakiyamaHideki MarushimaKoji KojimaHaruhiko NakamuraPublished in: Thoracic cancer (2017)
Our results indicate that early stage NSCLC patients with COPD had a significantly increased risk of poorer OS and potentially an increased risk of poor RFS.
Keyphrases
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- early stage
- minimally invasive
- lung function
- small cell lung cancer
- coronary artery bypass
- advanced non small cell lung cancer
- surgical site infection
- rectal cancer
- sentinel lymph node
- free survival
- prognostic factors
- radiation therapy
- atrial fibrillation
- coronary artery disease
- locally advanced