Background Recently, therapeutic strategies for a metastasectomy from colorectal carcinoma after chemo-targeted therapy with bevacizumab have been presented, with which some uncommon but serious adverse events have been reported. However, only few reports have investigated the safety of lung resection after such therapy or the histological effects. We retrospectively analyzed the both of them a...

BACKGROUND   Substernal hand-assisted thoracoscopy (HATS) has been proposed as a reliable surgical method with which to perform a bilateral lung metastasectomy. Herein, we review our 15-year experience with this approach for the purpose of understanding the long-term results in a large study cohort. METHODS   The study cohort was a series of 87 patients that underwent a HATS lung metastasecto...

OBJECTIVE Pulmonary metastasectomy is beneficial in select patients. The sensitivity of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) for pulmonary metastasis is unknown. The aims of the study were to determine the accuracy of FDG-PET in detecting pulmonary metastasis and identify factors affecting sensitivity. METHODS All patients undergoing metastasectomy from September 20...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Surgical resection of the primary and metastatic tumour is increasingly recommended in suitable patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). While role metastasectomy well studied established liver metastasis, evidence remains limited pulmonary metastases. This systematic review was conducted to examine current on lung (LUM) CRC. Methods: Three databases were systematically sea...

Pulmonary metastasectomy for sarcoma is surgery without proven benefit, and in the light of a randomized controlled trial examining pulmonary colorectal cancer, it should be questioned.

if required) The GILDA authors are unable to explain the apparently inverse relationship between early diagnosis and survival as it appeared in their trial. If treatment of metastases does not improve survival then there may be net harm done, explaining the inverse relationship. Key message The GILDA authors are unable to explain the apparently inverse relationship between early diagnosis and s...

We herein report two cases of pulmonary metastasis from renal cell carcinoma with 17-year disease-free intervals. Despite long disease-free intervals, their clinical course after pulmonary resection was different. An 82-year-old man (case 1) and a 73-year-old man (case 2), with histories of having undergone left nephrectomy for clear-cell-type renal cell carcinoma 17 years ago, were found to ha...

Breast carcinoma with pulmonary metastasis can be treated locally or systemically. Following primary tumour resection patients with isolated, completely resectable pulmonary nodules and definite functional operability can be offered lung metastasis resection. Following metastasectomy a median survival of 32 to 96.6 months can be achieved with corresponding five-year survival rates between 30.8 ...