Influence of the distance between home and the hospital on patients with surgically resected non-small-cell lung cancer

607 consecutive patients with non-small-cell lung cancer who had undergone pulmonary resection were analyzed according to the distance from their home to the hospital: 0 < 10, 10–30 and >30 km. The mean postoperative hospital stay differed between the groups, but there were no significant differences in the median length of follow-up, disease-free survival.