article_snippet: Dr Keith Prowse, medical adviser to the British Lung Foundation said: 'I've had ten or a dozen patients who have had it removed successfully and are still around, some of Dr Keith Prowse, medical adviser to the British Lung Foundation older than I am.
article_snippet: The majority are cured by surgery. '
article_snippet: About 70 per cent of patients live at least five years after being diagnosed, Dr Keith Prowse, medical adviser to the British Lung Foundation added.
article_snippet: But Dr Keith Prowse, medical adviser to the British Lung Foundation said if they did spread, they tended to be fairly resistant to chemotherapy and radiotherapy.