Abstract
Pulmonary giant cell carcinoma: the relation to smoking.
Highlights
The relation of smoking to the occurrence of the most common types of lung cancer has been examined and found positive in epidemiological studies
Types that have been causally ascribed to smoking in such studies have included squamous cell, small and large cell, and adenocarcinomas (US Dept of Health & Human Services, 1982; International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1986)
While all histological types of lung cancer studied far have been related to tobacco use and no type has yet been found to be unrelated, there have been questions raised about the relationship of smoking to these rarer types
Summary
The relation of smoking to the occurrence of the most common types of lung cancer has been examined and found positive in epidemiological studies. Rarer types, such as giant and alveolar cell carcinomas, have not been subject to separate study, because of their rarity, but because some pathologic classification systems for lung cancer include these types with other histologies (Yesner & Carter, 1982). As indexed by Medline through 1986, for case reports of pulmonary giant cell carcinoma which included smoking histories.
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