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Prognosis

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  • the Office for National Statistics 2019 state that, of those patients diagnosed with lung cancer, the survival is 16.2% of people living beyond 5 years and 9.5% living beyond 10 years (1)

Presurgical TNM staging provides important prognostic information.

Small cell tumours carry the worst prognosis:

  • untreated - 1-2 months median survival
  • treated - 12 months median survival

Untreated median survival times for other tumours include:

  • adenocarcinoma: 12 months
  • squamous carcinoma: 8 months

Smoking cessation after diagnosis materially improved overall and progression-free survival among current smokers with early-stage lung cancer

  • prospective Russian cohort study found higher overall survival time among patients who quit smoking vs continued smoking (6.6vs4.8yrs, respectively; P=0.001), 5-year overall survival (60.6%vs48.6%; P=0.001) and progression-free survival (54.4%vs43.8%; P=0.004)

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