Lung Cancer Overview - Types, Location and Characteristics and Histology
SPHERE of complications:
Superior vena cava syndrome
Pancoast tumor
Horner syndrome
Endocrine (paraneoplastic)
Recurrent laryngeal symptoms (hoarseness)
Effusions (pleural or pericardial)
All lung cancer types except bronchial carcinoid
are associated with smoking.
Squamous and Small cell carcinomas are
Sentral (central).
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