Spontaneous 19-year Regression Of Oat Cell Carcinoma With Scalene Node Metastasis
Lowy, A. D., Jr, & Erickson, E. R. (1986). spontaneous 19-year regression of oat cell carcinoma with scalene node metastasis. Cancer, 58(4), 978–980. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(19860815)58:4<978::aid-cncr2820580430>3.0.co;2-g
View Original Source →Abstract
This is the first case report of a patient with oat cell carcinoma of the lung with scalene node metastasis who, without treatment, is alive 19 years after the original diagnosis was made by biopsy. Seven years before the publication of this report, and at the age of 66 years, he underwent coronary bypass surgery and there was no gross evidence of malignancy present.
Case Details
Disease Location
Right lung
Personal Characteristics
55-year-old white male smoked 30 cigarettes/day for years (quit 4 mths before admission)
Clinical Characteristics
Suffered from shortness of breath of 6-weeks duration (1966) physical normal except for palpable glands in right supraclavicular area right scalene node biopsy performed surgically diagnosis of metastatic undifferentiated small cell carcinoma or oat cell carcinoma in 1973, developed a typical angina pectoris & treated medically angina recurred again in 1978 arteriography performed in 1978 (both grafts found patent & circumflex division of left coronary vessel showed total proximal occlusion)
Remission Characteristics
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Treatment & Mechanisms
Clinical Treatment
Aorta-saphenous vein bypass to the right coronary artery. Left internal mammary artery bypass to the left anterior descending coronary artery medical treatment (not specified)