Objective: Although thoracotomy for removal of pulmonary metastasis is well documented in a wide variety of solid tumors, data are sparse regarding management of patients with gynecologic malignancies metastatic to the lung.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the Roswell Park Cancer Institute experience between 1982 and 1999. Of 82 eligible patients with gynecologic tumors metastatic and confined to the lung, 25 underwent pulmonary resection.
Results: There were 60 uterine and 22 cervix cancer patients with pulmonary metastases. Among patients with uterine cancer primaries undergoing pulmonary resection (n = 19) median survival was 26 months. Uterine cancer patients who underwent surgical resection for leiomyosarcomas (n = 11) had a median survival of 25 months compared to 46 months in patients with adenocarcinoma (n = 6, P = 0.02). Median survival in cervix cancer patients undergoing resection for pulmonary metastases (n = 6) was 36 months.
Conclusions: Pulmonary resection may provide a survival advantage for selected patients with uterine and cervical malignancies with metastases isolated to the lung.
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