Clinical characteristics of patients with multiple primary lung cancers: Moving beyond the Martini and Melamed criteria.

7570 Background: Deciding to operate for lung cancer in patients with a prior lung cancer resection is influenced by the extent of disease at 1st resection and the certainty that the new lesion is a 2nd primary lung cancer. While the Martini and Melamed (MM 42% men; and 8% never smokers. See Table for stage, histology, and completeness of resection. DFS and OS were not associated with smoking status, surgical procedure, and histology. Stage at 1st resection was not associated with patterns of recurrence (none ...