Conservative surgery in extensive forms of lung cancer

: The paper discusses a 15-year experience gained in using surgical treatment for lung cancer. Lobe- or bilobectomy, extended lobectomy and combined lobectomy were carried out for advanced tumor in 97 patients (11.5% of radically--operated cases). Postoperative lethality was 5.2%. The end results in cases of tumor dissemination to regional lymph nodes was half that in metastasis--free patients. Organ--saving surgery is indicated in patients with well-differentiated advanced cancer of the lung without metastasis to lymph nodes.