[Radical surgical treatment of the 91 year old woman with a lung cancer].

This article presents the literature data review showing an urgency of lung cancer treatment problem in elderly patients, considering that more than 40% patients are in the age category older 65. The opinion on inexpediency of baseless refusal of adequate radical operative treatment performance under condition of patient functional validity is proved. The authors demonstrate their own clinical case of the 91 year old patient with a peripheral middle lobe right lung cancer with metastasises in root lymph nodes pT2N1M0 IIB, whom upper bilobectomy with one-piece methodic ipsilateral mediastinal lymphadenectomy without any complications was made.