Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of lung carcinomas spontaneous regression

	Ref.	Age	Sex	Metastasis	Regression	TNM	Pathologic examination	Pathologic diagnosis	Associated treatments or health conditions	Follow-up (month)
1	Cafferata, MA [14]	68	M	None	Complete regression	Stage I	CT-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy	Poorly differentiated pulmonary adenocarcinoma	Unknown	48
2	Pujol, JL [34]	75	F	N/A	Complete regression	N/A	Fine-needle transbronchial biopsy	Non-small cell lung cancer	Anti-Hu Antibody Syndrome	18
3	Gladwish, A [35]	81	F	Lymph node metastases	Partial regression	T2N3M0	Ultrasound-guided biopsy	Moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma	Essiac tea	18
4	Menon, MP [26]	44	M	Brain and adrenal gl and metastases	Partial regression	N/A	Biopsies of both the adrenal gland and lung	Poorly differentiated non-small-cell carcinoma	HAART (AIDS)	60
5	Lee, YS [20]	70	F	N/A	Complete regression	N/A	Bronchoscopy biopsy	Small cell lung cancer (SCLC)	Lower respiratory tract infection (fever and cough with yellowish sputum)	132
6	Choi, SM [24]	71	M	N/A	Complete regression	N/A	Bronchoscopy biopsy	Squamous cell carcinoma	Pulmonary tuberculosis	10
7	Nakamura, Y [29]	71	M	None	Complete regression	cT4N0M0	Thoracoscopy	Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma	Anti-NY-ESO-1 immunity	5
8	Mawhinney, E [36]	N/A	F	N/A	Complete regression	N/A	Bronchoscopy	Atypical cells suggestive of SCLC	Ataxic sensorimotor neuropathy with mild weakness (intravenous immunoglobulin and intravenous methylprednisolone and subsequent oral corticosteroid)	18 DEATH for Neurologic disorder
9	Asada, M [37]	88	M	N/A	Complete regression	N/A	Sputum cytology	Squamous cell carcinoma	Tiapride for the treatment of senile mental illness	4
10	Haruki, T [31]	69	F		Partial regression	cT1N2M1	CT-guided needle biopsy	Lung adenocarcinoma	Immunological CD8+ T cell	14
11	Darnell, RB [38]	60	M	N/A	Complete regression	N/A	Biopsy specimen	Small cell lung cancer (SCLC)	Paraneoplastic neuronal antibodies	72
12	Darnell, RB [38]	71	M	None	Complete regression	N/A	N/A	N/A	Hu-antibody positive	12 and Death for Her neurological state progressively deteriorated
13	Nakano, T [25]	50	F	Lymph node metastases	Complete regression	N/A	Bronchoscopy examination	Small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC)	hepatitis B cell strain	72 months and died for hepatocellular carcinoma
14	Sperduto, P [39]	61	M	Adrenal metastasis	Complete regression	N/A	Needle aspiration	Squamous cell carcinoma	auditory hallucinations (treated with amitriptyline and perphenazine)	24