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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain 2006 6(3):135-137; doi:10.1093/bjaceaccp/mkl023
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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 6 Number 3 2006 © The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia [2006]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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1. With respect to lung cancer:
  1. Is the most common cancer among men in the UK.
  2. Male: female ratio is 4:1.
  3. 80% die within 1 yr of diagnosis.
  4. The majority are non-small cell in origin.
  5. All small cell cancers are inoperable.

2. When considering suitability for pneumonectomy:
  1. Patients more than 80 yrs are at an increased risk of perioperative morbidity.
  2. All patients should have an ECG.
  3. A preoperative post bronchodilator FEV1 >1.5 litre is acceptable.
  4. In-hospital mortality is 6–8% in the UK.
  5. Weight loss is irrelevant.

3. The following are useful for staging lung cancer and assessing operability:
  1. CT scan.
  2. Bronchoscopy.
  3. PET scan.
  4. Mediastinoscopy.
  5. Percutaneous CT-guided biopsy.

4. With regard to exercise testing:
  1. A Formula max <20 ml kg–1 min–1 indicates a very high risk of perioperative death.
  2. The ability to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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