Current Outcome in Patients with Lung Cancer and Positive Mediastinoscopy

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

Volumn , Issue 6, 2001, Pages 273-276

  Rooker, S ^a   Van Schil, P ^a   Van Den Brande, F ^a   De Maeseneer, M ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Induction chemotherapy; Lung neoplasms; Mediastinoscopy; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035523918     PISSN: 00015458     EISSN: 25770160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. MOUNTAIN C. F. Revisions in the international system for staging lung cancer. Chest, 1997, 111 : 1710-7.
2. VAN SCHIL P., VAN DEN BRANDE F. The current role of invasive staging in lung cancer. Monaldi Arch Chest Dis, 1997, 52 : 237-41.
3. VANSTEENKISTE J., STROOBANTS S., DE LEYN P. et al. Lymph node staging in non-small-cell lung cancer with FDG-PET scan : a prospective study on 690 lymph node stations from 68 patients. J Clin Oncol, 1998, 16 : 2142-9.
4. KIRSCHNER P. A. Cervical mediastinoscopy. Chest Surg Clin North Am. 1996, 6 : 1-20.
5. PEARSON G., DELARUE N. C., ILVES R., TODD T. R., COOPER J. D. Significance of positive superior mediastinal nodes identified at mediastinoscopy in patients with resectable cancer of the lung. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 1982, 83 :1-11.
6. PATTERSON G. A., PIAZZA D., PEARSON F. G. et al. Significance of metastatic disease in subaortic lymph nodes. Ann Thorac Surg, 1987, 43 : 155-9
7. SHEPHERD F. A. Induction chemotherapy for locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. Ann Thorac Surg, 1993, 55 :1585-92.
8. ROSELL R., GOMEZ-CODINA J., CAMPS C. et al. A randomized trial comparing preoperative chemotherapy plus chemotherapy plus surgery with surgery alone in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. N Engl J Med, 1994, 330 : 153-8.
9. ROSELL R., GOMEZ-CODINA J., CAMPS C. et al. Preresectional chemotherapy in stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer : a seven year assessment of a randomized controlled trial. Lung Cancer, 1999, 26 : 7-14.
10. ROTH J. A., FOSSELLA F., KOMAKI R. et al. A randomized trial comparing perioperative chemotherapy and surgery with surgery alone in resectable stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst, 1994, 86 : 673-80.
11. ROTH J. A., ATKINSON E. N., FOSSELLA F. et al. Long-term follow-up of patients enrolled in a randomized trial comparing perioperative chemotherapy and surgery with surgery alone in resectable stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer, 1998, 21 : 1-6.
12. DILLMAN R. O., HERNDON J., SEAGREN S. L., EATON W. L., GREEN M. R. Improved survival in stage III non-small-cell lung cancer : seven years follow-up of cancer and leukemia group B (CALGB) 8433 trial. J Natl Cancer Inst, 1996, 88 : 1210-5.
13. SPLINTER T., VAN SCHIL P., KRAMER G. et al. Randomized trial of surgery versus radiotherapy in patients with stage IIIA (N2) non-small-cell lung cancer after a response to induction chemotherapy. EORTC 08941. Clin Lung Cancer, 2000, 2 : 69-72.