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Previous tumour predicts lung cancer risk
Previous tumour as a predictor of risk of developing lung cancer
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Dr Eric M Toloza
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA; toloz001@mc.duke.edu
The prognostic ability of a patient’s history of a previous malignant tumour to predict the risk of developing lung cancer
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An estimated 174 470 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed and 162 460 patients with lung cancer will die in the USA in 2006.1 Worldwide, a more staggering 1 352 132 new cases of lung cancer were diagnosed and 1 178 918 patients with lung cancer died in 2002.2 A low overall 5 year survival of 15–21% has been observed for all clinical stages combined due to findings of localised (or stage I or II) lung cancers in only 16–42% of all new cases of lung cancer.3
In order to improve survival among new cases of lung cancer, several efforts are being made to identify more patients with lung cancer while in the earlier stages (ie, small primary tumours with no mediastinal or distant metastasis) by both clinical and radiographic means. The use of chest radiograpphy with or without sputum cytology and
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