Gender difference in survival of resected non–small cell lung cancer: Histology-related phenomenon?

It remains controversial whether there is a gender difference in survival of patients with resected non-small cell lung cancer.We retrospectively analyzed 2770 patients (1689 men and 1081 women) with non-small cell lung cancer who underwent pulmonary resection between 1995 and 2005 at the National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo. A gender difference in survival was studied in all patients, in those divided according to histology or pathologic...