title: Changing incidence of adenocarcinoma of the lung: a brief review.
abstract: The autopsy of lung cancer at Hines Veterans Administration Hospital was reviewed for a 27-year period, between 1957 and 1983. There has been a changing histologic pattern with a recent increase in adenocarcinoma and a relative decrease of the other cell types. This observation, based on a virtually all-male patient population, is partly attributed to better and improved diagnostic procedures.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000453:epidemiology; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male