A variety of cause-and-effect relationships, features of the biology of a cancerous tumor, differences in its cellular structure and vital functions of a sick person determine a wide range of hematogenous metastasis of lung cancer. Often it is very individual: from […]

Primary multiple malignant tumors — polyneoplasia are currently among other oncological diseases more than 3% and there is no tendency to their reduction. The formation of independent malignant tumors in various organs occurs simultaneously (synchronously) — up to 6 months, or […]

Accounting, systematization, assistance and assessment of its results in lung cancer have identified the need to develop classification criteria for the disease, which would take into account its main signs and manifestations, the nature and prevalence of pathological changes. Over […]

For patients with lung cancer in the advanced stages of the development of the disease, it turned out to be practically expedient to subdivide into stages IIIA and IIIB. This is determined by the peculiarity of the resulting pathomorphological changes. A […]

For more than forty years now, the problem of surgical treatment of lung cancer has been developed in the clinic of hospital surgery of the Military Medical Academy. Over the years, over three thousand surgical interventions have been performed. The main positions […]

The experience of surgical treatment of patients with lung cancer in the clinic for the period 1960— inclusive was studied. The analysis of clinical observations is divided into 3 stages: from 1960 to 1975, from 1976 to 1986 and from 1987 […]

By extended resections of the lungs, we mean the removal of the lung or its part with the obligatory wide removal of regional lymph nodes, including lymph nodes and mediastinal tissue. Selective removal of enlarged, suspicious of metastatic tumors, mediastinal lymph […]

Extended and combined operations were more often performed with central lung cancer. Of the 1720 patients, 1300 (75.8%) had a central form of lung cancer, and only 420 (24.2%) had peripheral form. Data on the location of tumors in 1720 operated patients, […]

The frequency of histological types of lung cancer among all operated patients, as well as in various groups depending on gender, age, and the clinical and anatomical form of the tumor, is shown in the figures. The size of the […]

The nature of the blastomatous lesion of various extrapulmonary formations and organs of the chest cavity significantly depends on the location of the primary tumor node. So, with tumor localization in the upper lobe of the right lung much more often […]