Adenocarcinoma of the lung: clinicopathological study.

A review of our 247 patients with adenocarcinoma of the lung revealed the overall five year survival rate to be only 0.81%. Lung resection offers the chance of cure if the lesion is peripherally located and without lymph node involvement. Direct chest wall invasion by tumor is not contraindication to surgery. Radiation therapy was not especially effective in our series. Several chemotherapeutic agents gave an overall response of 31.1%.