Apical Pulmonary Carcinoma and Tuberculosis

Concurrent pulmonary tuberculosis and primary carcinoma

“…Subsequent attempts to relate these two diseases aetiologically varied from marked incompatibility or antagonism (Rokitansky, 1854;Pearl, 1929;Cooper, 1932) to a direct cause and effect relationship (McConkey, 1908;Ewing, 1928;Fried, 1935;Cohen, 1949;Woodruff et al, 1951 and1952;Hauser and Glazer, 1955;Bender, 1956;Finke, 1956;Weissman, 1956;Jackson, Garber, and Post, 1957;Wofford, Webb, and Stauss, 1962;Gebel, Epstein, Fulkerson, and Sparger, 1962). Several studies reported in the recent past logically speculated on purely circumstantial or fortuitous coexistence, i.e., the increasing association of the two diseases is due to adequate treatment, improved diagnostic methods, changes in the epidemiology, and increasing life expectancy (Bergmann, Shatz, and Flance, 1948;Shefts and Hentel, 1950;Carey and Greer, 1958;White, Beck, and Pecora, 1959;Christoforidis and Browning, 1959;Fontenelle and Campbell, 1970).…”