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Take
home message for bronchogenic carcinoma:
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Most if it are preventable.
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Leading cause of cancer death
in
industrialized world.
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Four principal histologic
patterns.
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Squamous cell or mixed
adeno-squamous cell is most common type.
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Only 20-30% cases are
resectable
at the time of discovery.
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Paraneoplastic syndrome
is different from metastatic disease.
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Paraneoplastic syndromes differ
with histologic type: ADH and ACTH with small cell;
parathyroid
hormone with squamous cell.
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TMN classes are used
to generate "Stage groups."
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Very poor survival rates. Surgery
for the most part, medical treatment for small cell carcinoma.
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Pulmonary function studies
before surgery.
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