Mortality associated with lung cancer accounts to 17% of all cancer deaths. Although histopathology remains the gold standard in the diagnosis of the lung cancer, it is a complex and a time-consuming technique. This article provides an overview of the study which compared the accuracies of other complementary methods and further compared their results with histological findings. Early Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer Lung cancer is one the most prevalent and lethal cancers accounting for 17.8% of all cancer deaths. For last three of decades, the 5-year survival rate of lung cancer has not changed and remains <15%.
Symptoms like fever, cough, expectoration, hemoptysis, weight loss etc. are common in tuberculosis (TB) and lung cancer. Hence, a significant number of cases are initially misdiagnosed and treated for TB. It has been recognized that the prognosis of lung cancer is strongly related to…
