Bronchogenic cancer, sepsis and survival

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Abstract
There is much speculation concerning the effect of post‐operative sepsis (empyema) on the course of patients with bronchogenic carcinoma. Most reported series include only a few patients with short follow‐up. This paper reports a series of over 900 cases of resectable bronchogenic carcinoma who have been followed carefully for five years. At each time interval reported, even excluding the 30‐day mortality, the patients who did not experience infection had a better outlook. The differences are not statistically significant, and lend no support to the apparent increased survival associated with infection and bronchogenic carcinoma.

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