Diagnosis and Treatnlent of Pulmoonary Cancer in Young Age.

Abstract

During4years between 1966 and 1969, there were24cases with pulmonary cancer in younger age among 361 cases in total.
Only 5 cases of them had not any complain, while the other cases showed some symptoms such as cough or hemosputum.According to the classifications of x-ray finding, 2 cases of them showed peripheral nodular type and the most of the cases showed hiliar type or pleurisy type.
As regards the prognosis after admission, 14cases (58.3%) died within6 months, and20cases (83.4%) within one year.
Only 8 cases (33.3%) were treated with resection, however, in most of them the metastasis already extended to the regional lymph nodes or mediastinum.
The other16cases (66.7%) in the endstage were treated with radiation, chemotherapy or combined therapy.Accordingly they had extremely poor prognosis.
Median survival time from the first examination was5.3months in plumonary cancer of younger age, while19months in resected cases, 6.9 months in non resected and6.7months in totol cases.
Pathohistological type of these cases, consist of undifferentiated carcinoma of 58.3%, adenocarcinoma of 20.8%and spuamous cell carcinoma of 12.5%. Therefore, there are more cases with undifferentiated carcinoma in younger age than that in total cases.