Summary of Key Points
Cancer of the Lung - NSCLC and SCLC
Abeloff's Clinical Oncology, 4th ed. 2008
Cancer of the Lung - NSCLC and SCLC
Abeloff's Clinical Oncology, 4th ed. 2008
Although reports of pulmonary malignancies date to antiquity, lung cancer is largely a disease of modern humans. Before 1900 lung cancers were viewed as “matters of medical curiosity not known to be in any degree influenced by medicine and too rare to be of much practical importance”. By the mid-twentieth century, however, lung cancer had become epidemic and firmly established as the leading cause of cancer-related death in North America and Europe.
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