Lung cancer in Hong Kong Chinese: Mortality and histological types, 1973-1982

Kung, I. T. M.; So, Kwok-Fai; Lam, Tai Hing

doi:10.1038/bjc.1984.187

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“…The results are quite different from that reported by Lam and Kung et al (3,5). Adenocarcinoma in our study was relatively less frequent but small cells carcinoma was more .…”

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confidence: 57%

Female Lung Cancer and Smoking Habits

ZhongXing

Sasaki

et al. 1992

Journal of Epidemiology

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“…The results are quite different from that reported by Lam and Kung et al (3,5). Adenocarcinoma in our study was relatively less frequent but small cells carcinoma was more .…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 57%

Female Lung Cancer and Smoking Habits

ZhongXing

Sasaki

et al. 1992

Journal of Epidemiology

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“…Different from developed countries, the information record and statistics of lung cancer in China are incomplete, and the clinical profiles about Chinese lung cancer are rarely reported and largely unknown. There were only several reports from a Hong Kong hospital describing the clinical profiles of Chinese lung cancer decades ago (6)(7)(8). Another paper representing the histological characteristics of lung cancer of males was based on the data from a hospital in North China (9).…”

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Clinical profiles and trend analysis of newly diagnosed lung cancer in a tertiary care hospital of East China during 2011–2015

Wang

Jixia

et al. 2017

J. Thorac. Dis.

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Background: More than one-third of lung cancer worldwide occurring in China. However, the clinical profiles of lung cancer patients in the mainland of China are rarely reported and largely unknown. The Results: From 2011 to 2015, aggregately 5,779 patients, including 3,719 males and 2,060 females, were diagnosed as lung cancer. The major histologic subtypes of lung cancer were adenocarcinoma (ADC, 60.0%), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC, 25.6%), small cell lung cancer (SCLC, 8.5%), large cell carcinoma (0.6%), adenosquamous carcinoma (1%), other non-small cell carcinoma (1.6%) and unclassified or rare carcinoma (2.8%). ADC proportion of female was much higher than that of male. A higher proportion of advanced stage (stage IIIB, IV) of lung cancer existed in patients who were admitted to hospital due to respiratory or cancer related symptoms (RCRS) than those without RCRS. Smoking rate in male patients reached 80.2%, while it was only 2.7% in females. EGFR mutation existed in 66% of female and 37% of male patients with ADC.Conclusions: This study demonstrates the clinicopathologic characteristics of lung cancer patients from East China, including histologic composition, staging proportion, smoking prevalence and gene mutation status. During the past 5 years, the proportion of ADC has increased gradually whereas SCC decreased.

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“…However, the female rates are among the highest in the world with an age-standardized incidence rate of 23.4 per 100,000 in 1974-1977 (Waterhouse et al, 1982), resulting in an unusually low male to female ratio. The most common cell type in males is squamous cell carcinoma (33.3%) and in females, adenocarcinoma (49.6%) (Kung et al, 1984). A case control study in 1976-1977 confirmed the relationship between lung cancer and smoking in males, but in females about half the lung cancer patients were found to be non-smokers, of whom two thirds were suffering from adenocarcinoma (Chan et al, 1979).…”

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