Stephen V Liu, Director of Thoracic Oncology and Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University, shared a post on X:
“Report from MSKCC on surgical resection for NSCLC in patients age 90 and older.
Median length of stay was 5d, 3 patient (18%) readmitted within 90d, 0% 90d mortality, no signs of postoperative neurocognitive compromise, median OS 43m from surgery.”
Title: Nonagenarians: Outcomes after lung cancer surgery
Authors: Hely Ollila, Amina Tidjani, Bernard J. Park, David R. Jones, Prasad S. Adusumilli
Read The Full Article at Lung Cancer.
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