ABSTRACT:Here we report three case of Lung Carcinoma in young adult males, non-smokers, no family history of malignancy and no other risk factors like occupational or environmental exposure, past history of tuberculosis or chronic obstructive bronchitis, who presented with variable chest radiographic and computerized tomographic findings, these cases warrants further analysis regarding the changing trend of higher incidents of lung carcinoma in young adult males. KEYWORDS: Adeno Carcinoma, PET Scan, Ewing's Sarcoma INTRODUCTION:Lung Cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths in developed countries and is also raising at alarming rates in developing countries. This is the single most devastating cause of cancer related deaths with approximately 1.5 million cases worldwide. Lung cancer is responsible for about 1 million deaths per year at present and it will rise to three million per year by the year of 2010. Young patients are very likely to be symptomatic present with advance disease. There is changing trend of higher incidence of Lung carcinoma in young patients. In addition to smoking, occupational exposure to carcinogens, indoor air pollution, dietary factors and family history of cancer have recently being implicated in causation of Lung cancer. We report three cases of lung carcinoma in young adult males in absence of any known etiological risk factors.
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