Thirteen patients (62%) are alive without disease.
The patient experienced a single cutaneous relapse and remains alive without disease 4 years after diagnosis.
Before AIDS was identified I thought five years without noticible infection would indiate one was without disease.
Three patients are alive without disease progression at 14, 20, and 21 months follow-up.
Results: Of 128 patients, 40 (32%) had recurrent disease, 22 (17%) died without disease, and 66 (51%) are disease free.
"Even if you planted one without disease tolerance, it would tolerate ice and salt, air pollution, drought, some degree of flooding," he said.
The other patients are all alive without disease.
In patients without disease progression, a favorable outcome may be possible.
At present, he is alive, without disease recurrence, for more than 44 months after his operation.
The postoperative course was uneventful, and he was alive without disease 5 months after pulmonary resection.
The patient has been alive and without disease for 6 years after the second surgery.
