Pneumonectomy for lung cancer in the elderly: lessons learned from a multicenter study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

60% of patients diagnosed with lung cancer are older than 65 years and are at risk for substandard treatment due to a reluctance to recommend surgery. Pneumonectomy remains a high risk procedure especially in elderly patients. Nevertheless, the impact of age and neoadjuvant treatment on outcomes after pneumonectomy is still not well described.

Methods

We performed a multicentric retrospective study, analyzing outcomes of patients older than 70 years who underwent pneumonectomy for central primary lung malignancy between January 2009 and June 2019 in 7 thoracic surgery departments: Lucerne and Bern (Switzerland), Hamilton (Canada), Alicante (Spain), Monza (Italy), London (UK), Leuven (Belgium). Survival was estimated with Kaplan-Meier, and differences in survival w

SUBMITTER: Minervini F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8575851 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature