Lung carcinoma in patients age younger than 30 years

✍ Scribed by Yutaka Mizushima; Akira Yokoyama; Masami Ito; Hideo Manabe; Takashi Hirai; Hiroyuki Minami; Yoshiyuki Anzai; Hideo Sato; Yoshinori Kusajima; Ryouhei Yamashita; Kouichirou Kobayashi; Shigeki Sugiyama; Masashi Kobayashi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Volume: 85
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19990415)85:8<1730::aid-cncr12>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

BACKGROUND.

To the authors' knowledge, no study regarding lung carcinoma patients age Ͻ30 years has been published. Therefore, this study was undertaken to define the characteristics of lung carcinoma patients age Ͻ30 years.

METHODS.

Information regarding 26 patients with primary lung carcinoma who were age Ͻ30 years was obtained from 10 medical institutions and reviewed retrospectively. For comparison, 304 patients age Ն30 years who were admitted to the First Department of Internal Medicine at Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University between 1980-1996 were studied.

RESULTS. Among the characteristics observed in the group of lung carcinoma patients age Ͻ30 years was a high incidence of female gender, no history of smoking, so-called "low grade malignancy," American Joint Committee on Cancer Stage I disease, and previous surgical resection. In addition, a low incidence of squamous cell carcinoma was noted, and a more favorable prognosis was observed.

CONCLUSIONS.

The current study noted clinical features that could be defined clearly in lung carcinoma patients age Ͻ30 years.