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(Chest. 1999;116:480S-485S.)
© 1999 American College of Chest Physicians

New Surgical Options for Elderly Lung Cancer Patients*

Michael T. Jaklitsch, MD, FCCP; Raphael Bueno, MD, FCCP; Scott J. Swanson, MD, FCCP; Steven J. Mentzer, MD, FCCP; Jeanne M. Lukanich, MD and David J. Sugarbaker, MD, FCCP

* From the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Correspondence to: Michael T. Jaklitsch, MD, FCCP, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115; e-mail: mtjaklitsc{at}bics.bwh.harvard.edu

To understand the size of the aging population in the United States, the imminent need to include the elderly in clinical studies on lung cancer, and the safe potential of video-assisted thoracic surgery, and to change awareness of the elderly’s need for and ability to undergo treatment for lung cancer, clinical studies of video-assisted thoracic surgery in patients >= 70 years of age are presented. The elderly are a fast-growing part of the American population who are at high risk for lung cancer and should be included in clinical studies. Age alone should not be a contradiction to thoracic surgical interventions when video thoracoscopy is performed as treatment.




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