Effect of Surgical Intervention on Survival of Patients With Clinical N2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Veterans' Affairs Central Cancer Registry (VACCR) Database Analysis.

Background: Optimal management of locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) lacks consensus. A retrospective analysis of patient data entered in the Veterans Affairs Central Cancer Registry was conducted to evaluate these issues.

Patients And Methods: Data of patients with cT1-4, cN2, and cM0 NSCLC diagnosed in the VA Health System between 1995 and 2003 were evaluated.

Association between race and survival of patients with non--small-cell lung cancer in the United States veterans affairs population.

Background: Racial disparities in outcomes of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in the United States are well documented. A retrospective analysis of patients in the Veterans Affairs Central Cancer Registry was conducted to determine whether similar disparities exist in a population with a single-payer, accessible health care system.

Patients And Methods: Demographic data of patients diagnosed with NSCLC between January 1995 and February 2009 were analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis test or the χ(2) test.

Spontaneous hemopericardium leading to cardiac tamponade in a patient with essential thrombocythemia.

Acute cardiac tamponade requires urgent diagnosis and treatment. Spontaneous hemopericardium leading to cardiac tamponade as an initial manifestation of essential thrombocythemia (ET) has never been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72-year-old Caucasian female who presented with spontaneous hemopericardium and tamponade requiring emergent pericardiocentesis.