To assess the effect of Palliative care on quality life patients suffering from advance bronchogenic carcinoma. The present cross-sectional study was conducted in department respiratory medicine, M.M. Institute Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana. Total 48 presented with Stage IV lung carcinoma to medicine were considered for study. After checking inclusion exclusion criteria, patient enroll...

The performance of a fluorescence imaging device was compared with conventional white-light bronchoscopy in 100 patients with lung cancer, 46 patients with resected stage I non-small cell lung cancer, 10 patients with head and neck cancer, and 67 volunteers who had smoked at least 1 pack of cigarettes per day for 25 years or more. Using differences in tissue autofluorescence between premalignan...

DIS. CHEST, VOL. 56, NO. 1, JULY 1969 cases fall in the fifth and seventh decades. In those reports in which sex is noted, there was an even distribution and in those cases in which clinical information is available, intractable congestive heart failure was the major presenting sign. As in the case reported here, there were 11 instances of hemopericardium. Although the heart was cited as the so...

NY TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUM DEALING A actively with diagnostic problems in chest diseases is faced with the differentiation of pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchogenic and metastatic pulmonary carcinoma?. The advancing average age of patients being treated for tuberculosis in sanatoria coupled with the well known increasing incidence of bronchogenic carcinoma brings to the fore a common problem r...

Although the lung is the most common site of metastasis from extrapulmonary malignancies, endobronchial metastases (EBM) are relatively rare. EBM typically originate from breast, colorectal, or kidney cancer. EBM from uterine cervical cancer is relatively rare and is difficult to confirm. In this study, we report a case of EBM in a patient with previously treated uterine cervical cancer. In thi...

Several important aspects of the Mayo Lung Project demand evaluation. These are: 1. Acceptance. Will people accept such a screening program? 2. Case finding. Does the screen pick out the people most likely to have or develop bronchogenic carcinoma? 3. Effectiveness. If an early case of bronchogenic carcinoma is found, will prompt treatment extend life beyond the time at which death from this di...