Table 1.

Summary patients A–C.

	Patient A	Patient B	Patient C
Age at diagnosis IPFa/Ltxb	46/48 years	53/57 years	47/53 years
Histologic confirmation IPF	yes, UIPc	yes, UIP	yes, UIP
Smoking status	ex, 30 packyears	ex, 26 packyears	never
Treatment IPF (all acetylcysteine/prednisone)	cyclophosfamide	azathioprine	azathioprine
Singe or bilateral Ltx	single (right)	After rejection single (left) Ltx bilateral Ltx	bilateral
Histology explanted lung	UIP, no malignancy	left: UIP right: squamous cell carcinoma	massive bilateral adenocarcinoma with lymphangitis carcinomatosa
Time Ltx to diagnosis of lung cancer	8 years, three months	in explanted lung	in explanted lung
Stage lung cancer	TxNxM1a (stage IV)	T2N2M0 (stage IIIA)	T4N2M1b (stage IV)
Treatment lung cancer	none, performance too poor	radical chemo-radiotherapy, progression: chemotherapy	palliative radiotherapy symptomatic skeletal metastases, performance too poor for further therapy
Time diagnosis lung cancer to death	3 months	1 year, 10 months	3 months

^aidiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

^blung transplantation

^cusual interstitial pneumonia.