TY - JOUR
T1 - Pathology of lung cancer
AU - Leslie, Kevin O.
AU - Colby, Thomas V.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - In this review, we focus on a number of developments pertaining to lung cancer diagnosis, entirely restricted to those parameters assessable by light microscopy. A number of discrete areas of interest stand out in 1996 related to the pathology of lung cancer. Aberrant p53 expression continues to be debated as an independent prognostic factor in nonsmall cell carcinoma. Neuroendocrine differentiation may be an independent prognostic factor in nonsmall cell carcinoma and new associations with the protein product of the bcl-2 oncogene have been described. Angiogenesis continues to arise as a predictor of metastatic potential in lung cancer. Finally, we review conceptual aspects of carcinogenesis from atypical adenomatous hyperplasia to bronchioloalveolar carcinoma, in addition to a variety of individual tumor-related issues associated with progression, response to chemotherapy, and survival.
AB - In this review, we focus on a number of developments pertaining to lung cancer diagnosis, entirely restricted to those parameters assessable by light microscopy. A number of discrete areas of interest stand out in 1996 related to the pathology of lung cancer. Aberrant p53 expression continues to be debated as an independent prognostic factor in nonsmall cell carcinoma. Neuroendocrine differentiation may be an independent prognostic factor in nonsmall cell carcinoma and new associations with the protein product of the bcl-2 oncogene have been described. Angiogenesis continues to arise as a predictor of metastatic potential in lung cancer. Finally, we review conceptual aspects of carcinogenesis from atypical adenomatous hyperplasia to bronchioloalveolar carcinoma, in addition to a variety of individual tumor-related issues associated with progression, response to chemotherapy, and survival.
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U2 - 10.1097/00063198-199707000-00003
DO - 10.1097/00063198-199707000-00003
M3 - Article
C2 - 9262109
AN - SCOPUS:0031179642
SN - 1070-5287
VL - 3
SP - 252
EP - 256
JO - Current opinion in pulmonary medicine
JF - Current opinion in pulmonary medicine
IS - 4
ER -