title: [Prospects of improving the early diagnosis of lung cancer in women].
abstract: Insufficient alertness of general practitioners resulting in diagnostic errors (47%) and latency of the disease (28.8%) are chiefly responsible for advanced cases of lung cancer among females. Improvement in the techniques of early diagnosis of lung cancer promises particularly good results for mass X-ray screenings of females since peripheral cancer is predominant in them. Lung cancer was detected at early stages in 78.7% of females and only in 50.5% of males. Early detection of the disease had a beneficial effect on the course of surgical treatment of lung cancer in female patients. Operable cases among them were 68.9% (v. 38.7% in males) and saving operations were performed in 73.8% of females and 60.2% of males.
mesh_terms: D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D008400:Mass Chest X-Ray; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011230:Precancerous Conditions / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000517:prevention & control; D012426:Russia; D012737:Sex Factors
vernacular_title: Perspektivy uluchsheniia ranneĭ diagnostiki raka legkogo u zhenshchin.