Abstract
The Histopathology of Lung Cancer in Liverpool: The Specificity of the Histological Cell Types of Lung Cancer
Highlights
In the ten year period of this study the number of cases of lung cancer registered with the Liverpool Cancer Control Organisation more than doubled, the number of positive carcinoma bronchial biopsies nearly doubled, the number of operation specimens rose steeply and steadily, and there was a small increase in the post mortem material
An analysis of the histopathology of over 1900 cases of lung cancer occurring in the Liverpool area in the decade 1950-1960, showed that in no more than 6 per cent of cases was a mixture of cell-types found in the tumours
The rest of the lung cancers were classified as squamous carcinomas, carcinoma simplex, oat-cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma and adenomatosis
Summary
These were all the main operation specimens of lung cancer examined for the Regional Thoracic Surgical Centre at Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, in the same ten year period as the biopsy series. There is some overlap of cases in these two series, because about a third of the operation cases had had a positive bronchial history in Broadgreen Hospital and were included in both series. Another third of the operation cases had had a positive biopsy in some other hospital and about a third had had no biopsy or a negative biopsy
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