TURKISH JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY 1995 , Vol 10 , Num 4
OUR PATIENTS WITH LARGE CELL LUNG CANCER WHO APPLIED TO ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE FROM 1980 TO 1991
AHMET KİZİR, CEM UZAL, ADNAN YÖNEY, NAKİYE ÖZTÜRK, OSMAN ALDEMİR
İstanbul Ü. Onkoloji Enstitüsü, İstanbul 66 patients with large cell lung cancer who applied to Istanbul University Oncology Institute from 1980 to 1991 were evaluated retrospectively, 13 of them were operable and 53 were inoperable, 60 patients were male and 6 were female. Medium age was 52. 65.2 percent of the patients smoked more than 10 years. 46 of the 55 treated patients (%83.6) were dead within the first year. Keywords :