A prospective randomized control trial comparing systematic and selective mediastinal lymph node dissection in elderly non-small cell lung cancer patients.
Phase 3
- Conditions
- non-small cell lung cancer
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000017408
- Lead Sponsor
- Okayama University Thoracic Surgery Study Group
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 530
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
1)Simultaneous or metachronous (within the past 2 years) double lung cancers. 2)Past history of #7 lymph node dissection for contralateral lung cancer resection. 3)Preoperative mediastinoscopy. 4)Interstitial pneumonitis. 5)Active bacterial or fungous infection. 6)Psychiatric disease. 7)Systemic steroids medication. 8)Uncontrollable diabetes mellitus. 9)Uncontrollable hypertension. 10)Past history of severe heart disease, heart failure, myocardial infarction within the past 6 months or attack of angina pectoris within the past 6 months. 11)The attending doctor does not identify as eligible clinically.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The rate of complications in the early postoperative period
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method