Lung cancer symptoms at diagnosis: results of a nationwide registry study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lung cancer is currently the leading cause of cancer death. Despite its high incidence and mortality, there are few studies describing its symptoms at diagnosis broken down by tumour stage and tobacco use. Accordingly, this study was proposed to describe the frequency of the most common symptoms of non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer (SCLC) at diagnosis, with a breakdown by stage and tobacco use.

Patients and methods

Cases were collected from the Spanish Thoracic Tumour Registry, a nationwide registry sponsored by the Spanish Lung Cancer Group. More than 50 hospitals recruited histologically confirmed lung cancer cases and information was gathered through personal interview plus data contained in the electronic clinical record. There were no data

SUBMITTER: Ruano-Ravina A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678343 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature