From January 1989 to October 1993, at the Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery of the University of Modena, 806 patients underwent thoracotomy and curative pulmonary resection for non small-cell lung cancer. Eighty five patients were 70 years old or older (mean 73.4 years, range 70-88). There were 78 males (91.7\%) and 7 females (8.3\%). This population was compared to 130 younger patients (under 70 years old), treated during the same period and with similar features with respect to the type of resection, sex, histology, grading and staging. Lobectomy was the procedure of preference in both groups.As regards postoperative mortality and overall complications, no significant differences were noted between the two groups of patients (two younger patients died and 43.8\% had postoperative complications; one patient of the older group died and 55.2\% had postoperative complications), but in the older ones a higher incidence of cardiovascular complications was found (P < 0.01). With respect to the long-term survival (follow-up 12-70 months), no significant difference was found between the two groups.Such findings show that pulmonary resection for bronchogenic cancer is feasible and justified in patients more than 70 years old, even if a higher incidence of cardiovascular complications may occur: a careful preoperative selection ought to be performed and lobectomy should be preferred.

Results of surgical resection in patients over the age of 70 years with non small-cell lung cancer / Morandi, Uliano; Stefani, Alessandro; M., Golinelli; C., Ruggiero; L., Brandi; A., Chiapponi; C., Santi; R., Lodi. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY. - ISSN 1010-7940. - STAMPA. - 11:3(1997), pp. 432-439. [10.1016/S1010-7940(96)01084-6]

Results of surgical resection in patients over the age of 70 years with non small-cell lung cancer.

MORANDI, Uliano;STEFANI, Alessandro;
1997

Abstract

From January 1989 to October 1993, at the Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery of the University of Modena, 806 patients underwent thoracotomy and curative pulmonary resection for non small-cell lung cancer. Eighty five patients were 70 years old or older (mean 73.4 years, range 70-88). There were 78 males (91.7\%) and 7 females (8.3\%). This population was compared to 130 younger patients (under 70 years old), treated during the same period and with similar features with respect to the type of resection, sex, histology, grading and staging. Lobectomy was the procedure of preference in both groups.As regards postoperative mortality and overall complications, no significant differences were noted between the two groups of patients (two younger patients died and 43.8\% had postoperative complications; one patient of the older group died and 55.2\% had postoperative complications), but in the older ones a higher incidence of cardiovascular complications was found (P < 0.01). With respect to the long-term survival (follow-up 12-70 months), no significant difference was found between the two groups.Such findings show that pulmonary resection for bronchogenic cancer is feasible and justified in patients more than 70 years old, even if a higher incidence of cardiovascular complications may occur: a careful preoperative selection ought to be performed and lobectomy should be preferred.
1997
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Results of surgical resection in patients over the age of 70 years with non small-cell lung cancer / Morandi, Uliano; Stefani, Alessandro; M., Golinelli; C., Ruggiero; L., Brandi; A., Chiapponi; C., Santi; R., Lodi. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY. - ISSN 1010-7940. - STAMPA. - 11:3(1997), pp. 432-439. [10.1016/S1010-7940(96)01084-6]
Morandi, Uliano; Stefani, Alessandro; M., Golinelli; C., Ruggiero; L., Brandi; A., Chiapponi; C., Santi; R., Lodi
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