The authors have studied the survival of 30 patients suffering from bronchogenic carcinoma invading the surrounding tissues treated with radical resection. This study shows that the prognosis is very poor. Only a quarter of the patients have survived for more than two years after the operation. The prognosis is similar to that for non-invasive tumors with regional lymphnode involvement. Despite the few cases examined, central tumors with lymphnode involvement and those invading the ribs or the pericardium seem to have the poorest prognosis.
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