Lung cancer profile at tertiary care hospital, South Tamil Nadu


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Original Article

Author :

Premananth P, R Gnanasekaran, N Nagarajan, Deiveegan

Volume :

4

Issue :

4

Abstract :

There is increase in cancer incidence both globally and country wise. Especially with the increase in air pollution, industrialisation, second hand smoke exposure etc. there is increase in lung cancer cases. Moreover there is trend in pathological shift from squamous cell carcinoma to adenocarcinoma and increasing occurrence of lung cancer in females. Objective: To find the histological distribution. Materials and Methods: Cross sectional study involving 50 patients with clinicoradiological suspicion of lung cancer. Diagnosis was reached either by bronchoscopy, CT guided biopsy or both. Results: Adenocarcinoma is the most common histological type.

Keyword :

 Cancer, Lung, Histology.