1950～1971年6月观察了1804例支气管癌患者,其中723例(40％)诊断为支气管癌时的年龄在65～94岁,年龄最小19岁。58％患者临床无手术切除指征,19％患者经支气管镜检查后认为无手术切除指征,二者总共为77％。23％的患者认为可作手术治疗,但剖胸后发现8％的病例不能切除。手术切除率仅为15％。值得注意的是,这些百分比在年龄超过65岁者和年青患者几乎是一样的。 From 1 1950 to 1971, 1804 patients with bronchial cancer were observed. Among them, 723 patients (40%) were diagnosed with bronchial carcinoma at the age of 65 to 94 years and the youngest was 19 years old. 58% of patients had no indications for surgical resection, and 19% of patients had no indications of surgical resection after bronchoscopy. The total was 77%. Twenty-three percent of patients thought that they could be treated surgically, but 8% of cases were found unremovable after transthoracic surgery. The surgical resection rate is only 15%. It is worth noting that these percentages are almost the same for young people over 65 years of age as for young patients.