Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma in Spain: A Rare and Different Form of Lung Cancer

To describe a series of cases of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) treated surgically between 1993 and 1997 in the 19 hospitals that make up the Bronchogenic Carcinoma Cooperative Group of the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (GCCB-S). From a total of 2944 cases of nonsmall cell...

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Published in:Archivos de bronconeumología (English ed.) 2006-08, Vol.42 (8), p.399-403
Main Authors: Encuentra, Ángel López, Rodríguez, Francisco Pozo, de Nicolás, José Luis Martín, Villena, Victoria, Catalán, Javier Sayas
Format: Article
Language:eng ; spa
Subjects:
Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar - mortality
Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar - surgery
Aged
Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma
Carcinoma bronquioloalveolar
Cirugía
Cáncer de pulmón
Estadificación
Female
Humans
Lung cancer
Lung Neoplasms - mortality
Lung Neoplasms - surgery
Male
Middle Aged
Spain
Staging
Surgery
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Summary:To describe a series of cases of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) treated surgically between 1993 and 1997 in the 19 hospitals that make up the Bronchogenic Carcinoma Cooperative Group of the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (GCCB-S). From a total of 2944 cases of nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), 82 (3%) were BAC. The clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with BAC were compared with those of the remaining 2862 patients with NSCLC. The percentage of men was lower for BAC than for other types of NSCLC (64.6% compared with 93.5%; P
ISSN:1579-2129
0300-2896
1579-2129
DOI:10.1016/S1579-2129(06)60554-5