Multicenter analysis of survival and prognostic factors in pathologic stage I non-small-cell lung cancer according to the new 2009 TNM classification.

Introduction: The new 2009 TNM classification introduced important modifications in lung cancer staging. The aim of this study is to validate our series of patients with pathologic stage I non-small-cell lung cancer according to the 7th edition of the TNM classification of malignant tumors and to the factors related with prognosis.

Patients And Methods: A multicenter retrospective study was performed.

Surgery of female genital tract tumour lung metastases.

Introduction: Lung metastases originating from tumours of the female genital tract are rare. Due to this rarity and their variable histology, it has been difficult to compare different patient series.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of patients undergoing resection of lung metastases of female genital tract tumours (uterine and cervical cancer) during the period 01/01/1989 to 12/31/2006.

Lung cancer surgery in the elderly.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a typical disease of the elderly, and is becoming increasingly more common as a result of the gradual aging of the population. Although patient age is known to be an independent prognostic factor of postoperative survival, lung resection should not be denied on the basis of age alone. In patients of this kind, careful evaluation and selection is very important.