BRONCHOGENIC CARCINOMA
| Autor: | Fayyaz Qureshi, Muhammad Imran Suliman, Muhammad Saeed Akhter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | The Professional Medical Journal. 16:121-126 |
| ISSN: | 2071-7733 1024-8919 |
| DOI: | 10.29309/tpmj/2009.16.01.2996 |
| Popis: | Background: The Connection between smoking and lung cancer is now generally accepted. The objective of this studywas to observe smoking habits among different histological types of bronchogenic carcinoma. Setting: Bahawal Victoria Hospital,Bahawalpur. P e r i o d : April 2000 to March 2003. M e t h o d s : This was a simple descriptive study comprising of 30 consectivehistopathologically / cytologically confirmed cases of bronchogenic carcinoma that were admitted in different medical units of BahawalVictoria Hospital, Bahawalpur. History regarding smoking was taken in detail including type of smoking, quantity of tobacco smoked andduration of smoking in years. Smoking patterns were observed with their age, gender, living conditions and type of bronchogenic carcinoma.Results: Among eighteen cases of squmous cell carcinoma, history of smoking was present in all males. Only one female who belongedto a village was non- smoker. Cases with small cell carcinoma were six in total and all were males with five smokers, three urban areas andtwo rural areas. Only one was a non- smoker with a rural background. Three females and one male had adenocarcinoma. One male fromcity and one female from a village were smokers, while remaining two females were non-smoker and lived in urban areas. Two men sufferingfrom large carcinoma were smokers residing in urban areas. C o n c l u s i o n : Cigarette smoking is present in 87% of all bronchogenic carcinomaespecially with squamous cell, and large cell varieties. The involvement of smoking cases of adenocarcinoma has been found to be the leastcommon. |
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