Symptoms of 353 patients with lung cancer and correlation with diagnostic results and therapeutical decisions
Abstract
The symptoms in the set of 353 patients with lung cancer in the time of diagnosis were as follows:cough in 69%,dyspnoe in 54%,lost of weight in 49%,expectoration of sputum in 39%,pain on the chest in 37%,haemopthysis in 18%,fever in 16%.Smoking men and women suffer from lung cancer in younger age than nosmokers,64 vs 71 years(p<0,0001). COPD was found in 40% of the studied set,more frequently have had epidermoid lung cancer.The TNM stages were as follows:Ia 6,5%,Ib 10,8%,IIa 0,8%,IIb 3,4%,IIIa 13%,IIIb 24,6%, IV 40,8%.Most frequent histological types were epidermoid cancer in 22,1% followed by adenocarcinoma(21,2%).Surgery underwent 17,4% from the whole set,from the nonsmall cell lung cancer pts it was 25,5%.After summarization of the date we looked for correlation between them.So for instance we found negative correlation between dyspnoea and resectability and between weight loss and resectability.