Research on Lung Transplants for Lu

Research on Lung Transplants for Lung Cancer
To date, lung transplant has been an uncommon treatment for lung cancer, but a review of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database reveals the following:

From 1987 to 2010 there are fewer than 50 recorded cases (less than 0.1% from the lung transplant cases) of lung transplantation being used for lung cancer.  Of these people, 29 patients had advanced multifocal BAC.

Without a lung transplant, and with traditional treatments, the median survival rate for people with advanced BAC is 1 year.  For patients who received a lung transplant, the 5-year survival rate was around 50% - similar to the survival rate for people who receive lung transplants for other reasons, such as COPD, and better than survival would be with chemotherapy.

The consensus seems to be that in carefully selected people, lung transplant may result in long-term survival for some people with BAC.