DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF LUNG CANCER IN JAMMU REGION: A SINGLE CENTRE STUDY

Vinod kumar, Salma Koser, Anil Sharma, Arjun Chib, Amit Badgal, Ritu Bhagat

Abstract

Lung cancer is widely prevalent worldwide and has different histological types. Various risk factors especially smoking have been associated with lung cancer. Squamous cell carcinoma has been the commonest histological type found in the present study, brain being the most common site of distant metastasis.

Keyword: lung cancer, smoking, histology, metastasis.

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