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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 of these values are well above the median values of 645 cm 3of intraoperative blood loss and less than one unit of packed red blood cells for intraoperative blood transfusion recorded for 496 patients undergoing hepatic resection at our own institution [ 11].
All five patients with tumor involvement in the margins of the resection had positive RT-PCR assays for Met in their lymphatic fluid, compared with 18 of 26 positive assays (69.
The use of CT scans and CEA blood testing in follow-up of patients after resection of the primary tumor has been popular for at least two decades.
In total, this patient had two clinical specimens available for analysis: tumor from the surgical resection and pleural fluid (Table 1).