Advanced Pneumonic-type Lung Carcinoma: A Retrospective Study of Clinical-radiological-pathological Characteristics with Survival Analysis in A Single Chinese Hospital

Conclusion Diagnosis of pneumonic-type carcinoma is usually delayed due to clinical and radiological features mimicking pulmonary infection. TBLB combined with BAL has a quite high diagnostic yield. The most frequent histological type is invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma. The incidence of EGFR mutation or ALK rearrangement is low in pneumonic-type carcinoma. For patients without cancer driver genes, chemotherapy is recommended to improve overall survival. 
 DOI: 10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2019.06.01
Source: Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research