Prognostic factors in patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer--an analysis of long-term survival patients.

A survival benefit of patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer has been reported since a development of new therapeutic agents in the 1990's. However, multivariate analyses of patients have not been evaluated. The aim of this study is to identify prognostic factors in the long-term survivors who had been treated with chemotherapy using these new agents and/or radiotherapy.