Treatment outcome (Table 4)
Median survival from the diagnosis of lung cancer was
better in patients who had cancer in the explanted lung than
in those who developed cancer at a later date in the native
or transplanted lungs: 24 months [confidence interval (CI),
12.9–29 months] vs. 4.8 months (CI, 1.3–13.3 months).
Unsurprisingly, median survival is also more favorable in
stage I–IIIA (23.2 months; CI, 9.4–27.8 months) compared
to stage IV disease (2.5 months; CI, 1.3–9.7 months).