THE RESULTS OF POST-OPERATIVE SURVIVAL RATES AND CLINICO-PATHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LUNG CANCER PATIENTS DETECTED BY MASS SCREENING

Abstract

Of a total of 172 lung cancer cases operated over the past decade at this department, 97 cases were detected by mass screening and 48 were by clinical symptoms. These two groups were compared each other in terms of age, sex, cigarette smoking, histological types, stage, TNM classification, surgical curability and survival rates.
In the mass screening group, the incidence of adenocarcinoma, T 1 mass and absolutely curative tumors were significantly higher than that of the group which were detected by clinical symptoms. The 5-yr survival rates of the former group, 60.4%, was significantly higher than that of the latter group, 34. 1% (p<0.05).