Prolonged Overall Survival After Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Patients With Breast Cancer Georgios Meimarakis, MD, Dominik Rüttinger, MD, PhD, Joachim Stemmler, MD, PhD, Alexander Crispin, MD, MPH, Rolf Weidenhagen, MD, Martin Angele, MD, PhD, Jan Fertmann, MD, Rudolf A. Hatz, MD, PhD, Hauke Winter, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 95, Issue 4, Pages 1170-1180 (April 2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.11.043 Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Survival rates according to completeness of resection of pulmonary metastases (R0, n = 66; R1, n = 6; R2, n = 9). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 1170-1180DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.11.043) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Survival rates according to hormone receptor status (negative, n = 14; positive, n = 31). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 1170-1180DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.11.043) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Survival rates according to number of metastases (number of metastases = 1, n = 51; number of metastases ≥ 2, n = 30). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 1170-1180DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.11.043) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Survival rates according to size of metastasis (size of metastasis < 3 cm, n = 61; size of metastasis ≥ 3 cm, n = 20). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 1170-1180DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.11.043) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 5 Survival of patients with or without metastasectomy. Matched pair analysis of patients matched for (A) age and TNM stage of the primary tumor (70 pairs) and (B) hormone receptor status and age (53 pairs). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 95, 1170-1180DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.11.043) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions