Radical Surgery as treatment option in advanced NSCLC – a retrospective analyses of 80 NSCLC patients of the TYROL lung cancer registry

Introduction: In advanced tumors of various entities (e.g. melanoma, colorectal carcinoma, sarcoma) metastasectomy is part of standard treatment for selected patients. The clinical significance of metastasectomy as an aggressive treatment approach for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is still unclear and scientific evidence is rare. Thus, the outcome of 80 advanced NSCLC patients, who underwent radical metastasectomy in an either synchronous or metachronous setting was analysed retrospectively. Methods: In the TYROL (Twenty Years Retrospective of Lung) Cancer Registry, 2500 lung cancer cases are docum…