Patterns of Presentation of Lung Cancer in Aswan University Hospital

Abstract

Background: globally, lung cancer is the most common cancer among males in terms of both incidence and mortality and among females has the third highest incidence, and comes after breast cancer in mortality. Aim of the Work: to recognize the lung cancer presentation pattern in Aswan University Hospital involving different clinical, radiological and bronchoscopic pattern. Patients and Methods: this retrospective study included 30 patients with lung cancer in Aswan University Hospital, all these data were recorded; complete clinical examination, full laboratory investigations, imaging modalities, bronchoscopy and histopathological analysis of tissue samples. Results: the mean age in lung cancer patients was (59.33 ± 8.6) years, mass lesion and collapse were the main radiological presentations and endobronchial mass lesion was the main presenting bronchoscopic finding. Conclusion: endobronchial mass was the most frequent bronchoscopic finding in lung cancer patients in our study.