Effect of Perioperative Pirfenidone Treatment in Lung Cancer Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Takekazu Iwata, MD, PhD, Shigetoshi Yoshida, MD, PhD, Taiki Fujiwara, MD, PhD, Hironobu Wada, MD, PhD, Takahiro Nakajima, MD, PhD, Hidemi Suzuki, MD, PhD, Ichiro Yoshino, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 102, Issue 6, Pages 1905-1910 (December 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.094 Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) Kaplan-Meier progression-free survival for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), comparing the perioperative pirfenidone treatment (PPT) group with the non-PPT group. The first acute exacerbation (AE) after operation was treated as a progression event. (B) Cumulative incidence curves depicting first AE-IPF after operation for PPT and non-PPT patients. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 102, 1905-1910DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.094) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions