[Treatment of 100 patients with small cell lung cancer].

100 patients with small cell lung cancer were treated in Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 1963 through 1987. The five year survival rate in patients received combined treatment (resection + chemotherapy+radiotherapy, resection+chemotherapy or resection+radiotherapy,) was 18.52% (5/27). It was better than patients received nonsurgical treatment (chemotherapy,radiotherapy or chemotherapy+radiotherapy, 58 patients). And also it was better than patients received surgical resection only (11 patients). This advantage was especially marked in patients with lesion of IIIa stage. The five year survival rate in this group was 26.31%(5/19). It was suggested that combined method (resection+chemotherapy+radiotherapy) is the first choice for the treatment of small cell lung cancer.