Abstract
It is believed that lung cancer in the young is more progressive, more resistant to any therapy and more fatal.From another point of view, lung cancer in the young is suspected to be independent of environmental carcinogens such as cigarettes.The author treated 12 lung cancer patients younger than 30 years old in the past 10 years, and studied clinical features of these patients and reviewed the literature.
Three patients were men and nine were women (ratio=1: 3) and only 4 patients smoked, none heavily.There were 2 tracheal tumors, 2 hilar tumors and 8 peripheral lesions.The most common histopathological type was adenocarcinoma (6 cases) and there were 3 bronchial gland origin tumors.Four patients, including 2 bronchial origin tumors are alive, and the mean survival time of the 7 patients who died of cancer was 9.6 months.
It was concluded that the incidence among females is high, that adenocarcinoma is most common histopathologically, that bronchial gland origin tumor is seen most frequently, and that the prognosis of lung cancer in the young was similar to other lung cancers.
