PMID- 15693478
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050303
LR  - 20061115
IS  - 0041-4131 (Print)
IS  - 0041-4131 (Linking)
VI  - 82
IP  - 9
DP  - 2004 Sep
TI  - [Survival and prognostic factors of non small cell lung cancer: analytic review 
      of 211 cases].
PG  - 843-8
AB  - Prognostic factors have a pivotal role in clinical oncology. They are helpful in 
      the selection of treatment, provide insights into the disease process and the 
      therapeutic response. The number of possibly useful prognostic factors in the 
      lung cancer is large. This study attempts to observe the survival of non small 
      cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and to find prognostic factors and other variables 
      potentially associated with outcome of lung cancer. It's a retrospective study 
      based on 211 patients with NSCLC. Median survival was 6 months with 95% 
      confidence interval: [4.2 - 7.8]. Overall 3 and 5 year survival were respectively 
      8.3% and 5.2%. Various Prognostic factors have been identified through univariate 
      (Kaplan-Meier) then multivariate (Cox) analyses. In addition to the clinical 
      factors such as age, disease extent and performance status, other variables were 
      found of significant prognostic value, like pretherapeutic leukocyte level. 
      Survival was significantly improved with surgery, radiation and also with 
      chemotherapy, mainly in advanced stage (IIIB and IV).
FAU - Battikh, Mohamed H
AU  - Battikh MH
AD  - Service de Pneumologie et d'Allergologie, Hopital Universitaire Fattouma 
      Bourguiba de Monastir.
FAU - Ben Sayah, Mohamed M
AU  - Ben Sayah MM
FAU - Joobeur, Samah
AU  - Joobeur S
FAU - Rouetbi, Naceur
AU  - Rouetbi N
FAU - Ben Salem, Kamel
AU  - Ben Salem K
FAU - Daami, Monia
AU  - Daami M
FAU - Maatallah, Anis
AU  - Maatallah A
FAU - Raham, Wahid
AU  - Raham W
FAU - Farhat, Chiraz
AU  - Farhat C
FAU - El Kamel, Ali
AU  - El Kamel A
LA  - fre
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Survie et facteurs pronostiques du carcinome bronchique non a petities cellules: 
      revue analytique de 211 cas.
PL  - Tunisia
TA  - Tunis Med
JT  - La Tunisie medicale
JID - 0413766
SB  - IM
MH  - Adenocarcinoma/pathology
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Aged
MH  - Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/diagnosis/*mortality/pathology/therapy
MH  - Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/pathology
MH  - Female
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - Humans
MH  - Lung/pathology
MH  - Lung Neoplasms/diagnosis/*mortality/pathology/therapy
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Multivariate Analysis
MH  - Neoplasm Staging
MH  - Prognosis
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Survival Analysis
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - Treatment Outcome
EDAT- 2005/02/08 09:00
MHDA- 2005/03/04 09:00
CRDT- 2005/02/08 09:00
PHST- 2005/02/08 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/03/04 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/02/08 09:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Tunis Med. 2004 Sep;82(9):843-8.