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Fırat Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Tıp Dergisi
2005, Cilt 19, Sayı 3, Sayfa(lar) 165-169
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Retrospective Comparative Evaluation of Epidemiological Properties of Lung Cancer
Gamze KIRKIL, Figen DEVECİ, Teyfik TURGUT, M. Hamdi MUZ, Canan KAÇAR
Fırat Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Elazığ – TÜRKİYE
Keywords: Lung cancer, cigarette, cell type

Lung cancer (LC) is the most common cancer type seen in men, but it takes sixth place among women. The incidence of LC increases more in women than men, and mortality is pretty high. The cell types of LC change paralel to the changes in smoking status. We aimed to investigate if there has been any changes on epidemiological properties of cases with LC by the time.

The demographic and epidemiological properties of 323 LC cases were evaluated. Study period was grouped as “period I” representing 1994-1999, “period II” representing 2000-2004. The changes in smoking status and sex between LC types were compared.

Number of cases in “period I” and “period II” was 113 (%34.98), 210 (%65.01), mean age was 61.11±9.75, 64.45±11.11, number of females was 16 (%14.15), 28 (%24.77), respectively. 90 (%79.6) of cases in “period I” were current smoker, 10 (%11.1) of them were female. In “period II” 172 (%81.90) cases were current smoker, 4 (%2.32) of them were female. The most common LC type in female was adenocarcinoma (AC) (%55.55), in male it was epidermoid carcinoma (EC) (%58.11) in both periods. 46 (%56.09) of 82 current smokers in “period I” had EC, 25 (%30.48) of them small cell carcinoma (SCC), 11 (%13.41) of them AC. Large cell carcinoma (LCC) was not seen. 60 (%58.82) of 102 current smokers in “period II” had EC, 22 (%21.56) of them SCC, 16 (%15.68) of them AC, 4 (%3.92) of them LCC.

In conclusion, we determined that ratio of current smokers increases in male, and decreases in female, these results are harmonius with cell types. Since AC was seen more frequently in smoker male, another risk factors may take part in developing of AC.


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