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LUNG CANCER IN A SAMPLE OF IRAQI PATIENTS | ||
| AL-TAQANI | ||
| Article 1, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 164-172 | ||
| Author | ||
| Yousif Abid-Alraheem Al-Ani | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Lung cancer is responsible for the most cancer deaths in both men and women throughout the world. Deaths from lung cancer (160,440 in 2004, according to the National Cancer Institute) exceed the number of deaths from four other major cancers combined (breast, colon, pancreatic and prostate). This descriptive retrospective study was performed using the records of 390 patients proved to have lung cancer aiming to assess the behavior and the approaches of lung cancer in a sample of Iraqi patients. The results of this study reveal that 71.8% of the patients were male, with a mean age of 63 years. The majority of the patients (90.2%) were smokers, the number of cases increases with the increase in the duration of smoking or the amount of daily cigarette smoking. Cough is the most common clinical findings, found in 98.5% of patients, followed by haemoptysis (64.1%). Chest x-ray, sputum cytology, bronchoscope and computerized tomography (CT)-scan are the back bone in the diagnosis in the majority of the cases. Chemotherapy and/ or radiotherapy are the primary management of 75.9% and the surgical choice was in 24.1% of the patients, but the tumors were removed only in 42.5% of operable patients. | ||
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