Unrecognized mediastinal goiters can produce asthma like symptoms, which may lead to late or misdiagnosis and deficient treatment. Once the diagnosis and exact extent of mediastinal goiter is established, multimodal surgical approaches are indicated for its safe removal - before occurrence of compressive symptoms.
Because the radicality of the first surgical resection is of essential importance for long-time local control of chest desmoids, accurate preoperative diagnostics and well-planned aggressive surgical resection of the primary tumor is recommended. Due to the low incidence of desmoids, multicentric randomized investigations would be mandatory to establish evidence-based protocol for desmoid tumors.
The annual incidence of lung cancer in Hungary is about 6,000. Since in our series of lung cancer patients about 4% were observed, which could be accepted as representing occupational disease because of a cumulative exposure to 25 fibre-years or more, the annual asbestos related lung tumour incidences may be estimated to be approximately 150 or more. The proportion of nearly two estimated cases of lung cancer per case of pleural mesothelioma corresponds to international experience. Up to now, lung cancer cases only exceptionally have been registered as occupational diseases, i.e. they were seriously under-diagnosed in Hungary. For improving this situation, diagnostic assistance by a self-interview with a questionnaire covering the working history for all newly diagnosed lung cancer patients would be helpful.
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