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Tumor stage is the most significant prognostic parameter for 5-year survival, but even patients with non-small cell lung cancer (non-SCLC) in pathologic stage IA disease (a tumor of less than 3 cm diameter located in one lobe of the lung and more than 2 cm from the carina without visceral pleural involvement, atelectasis, or pneumonitis, and absence of metastatic spread to regional lymph nodes) have a 33% chance of recurrence within 5 years after complete surgical resection (lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection) [ 2].
Both severe hepatitis and acute liver failure have been attributed to SSZ [ 25 26 27 28 ] . Patients with SSZ hepatotoxicity demonstrate a prompt recurrence of symptoms upon rechallenge with SSZ or sulfonamide [ 15 29 30 31 ] . Susceptibility to the toxic effects of SSZ and other sulfonamides may be due to the interaction of metabolic pathways regulating N-acetylation and specific detoxification of the metabolites of the drug [ 32 33 ] . However, it remains unclear if genetic differences in drug metabolizing enzyme expression may increase the risk of SSZ toxicity.
The NYT front story on these drugs points out that one of them, tamoxifen, is already approved as a treatment for preventing the recurrence of breast cancer, but now becomes the first drug ever approved for the prevention of cancer in those who've never had it.
Disease-free survival was determined as the differences between time zero (date of first treatment) and the date of first recurrence.
Staphylococcus aureus is the most common cause of osteomyelitis, a disease often refractory to treatment and subject to recurrence.