Lung cancer induced from chemotherapy a 20 years old case

Lung cancer is diagnosed at a late stage although we have novel diagnostic tools. The association of smoking and other environmental factors are well known. However; there are cases where a malignancy is associated with previous radiation treatment. There is an association between radiotherapy treat...

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Autores principales: Sapalidis, Konstantinos, Laskou, Stella, Amaniti, Aikaterini, Mantalovas, Stylianos, Giannakidis, Dimitris, Koulouris, Charilaos, Karapantzos, Ilias, Karapantzou, Chrysa, Mponiou, Konstantina, Tsiouda, Theodora, Konstantinou, Fotis, Kougioumtzi, Ioanna, Katsikogiannis, Nikos, Sardeli, Chrysa, Gogakos, Apostolos, Schizas, Nikos, Domeyer, Philip, Zarogoulidis, Paul, Kesisoglou, Isaak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6010615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29977753
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.03.013
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Sumario:Lung cancer is diagnosed at a late stage although we have novel diagnostic tools. The association of smoking and other environmental factors are well known. However; there are cases where a malignancy is associated with previous radiation treatment. There is an association between radiotherapy treatment and cancer incidence. We present a case where lung cancer and laryngeal cancer was induced 20 years after radiation therapy of a hogkin lymphoma.

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