Abstract
Objective The purpose of this study is to describe the clinicopathologic characteristics and the survival of pulmonary carcinosarcoma.Methods Clinical data of 26 patients with pulmonary carcinosarcoma who underwent surgical treatment was analyzed retrospectively using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences ( Release 17.0,SPSS,Inc).Survival analysis was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared using the log-rank test.Results The overall 5-year survival rate of the patients was 31.7％.The 5-year survival rate of patients with stage Ⅰ,stage Ⅱ and stage Ⅲ/Ⅳ disease was 69.7％,38.6％ and 9.8％ respectively ( P =0.03 ) Conclusion p-TNM was correlated with survival.Early diagnosis and radical operation is important to the survival of the patients with pulmonary carcinosarcoma. Key words: Lung neoplasms; Carcinosarcoma; Prognosis; Pathology
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