The Analyses of 76 Cases with Primary Lung Carcinoma

Nazmi DEMİRTAŞ, Zehra SEYFİKLİ, Amine SÖYLEMEZ,

Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Tüberküloz Anabilim Dalı,
Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Tıbbi Biyoloji Anabilim Dalı

From November 1992 to June 1994, seventy six patients diagnoscd as primary lung cancer were investigated its correlation of cell type, radiologic apperance, and smoking habbit, age and sex of patients, and diagnostic procedures and stages of lung cancer.

Sixty-eight patients composed of 68 male (89%) with mean agc: 59.54±1.07 yr (range: 36-78 yr), and 8 female (11%) with mean age: 47.25±4.42 yr (range: 29-67 yr). Ninenty-four percent of male and one percent of female were smoker. Most prevalance cell type of lung cancer was squamous cell (60.9%), and it was commonly related with smoking habbit (p<0.05). But female did not show no significant difference for cell type of concer (p>0.05).

Most commonly applied diagnostic procedure was fiberoptic broncoscopy (65.4%). In 30 (51.7%) of 58 patients with nonsmall cell were inoperably.

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