[Bronchiolo-alveolar cancer and its surgical treatment (a practical view)].

The authors have followed up 243 patients with bronchioalveolar cancer of the lung from 1979 to 1995 years. The age of the patients varied from 39-83 years. The ratio men women was as 1.

Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and risk of lung cancer in non-smoking women from Moscow, Russia.

The association between exposure to ETS and the risk of lung cancer in life-time non-smoking women was investigated by means of a hospital based case-control study in Moscow, Russia. The main importance of our study is that it was conducted on a population with a specific smoking pattern from which no information is available on health effects of ETS. A total of 189 incident cases of histologically confirmed lung cancer were identified in 2 principal cancer treatment hospitals in Moscow.

[Role of outdoor and indoor air pollution in the etiology of lung cancer].

The results of a case-control study of lung cancer risk in female non-smokers in Moscow are presented in the paper. The increase in a risk of lung cancer was found to be associated with outdoor pollution, the closure of the residence to chemical industry and ferrous and non-ferrous smelters, environmental tobacco smoke from husbands and exposure to radon (Rn) at home. The relative risk of lung cancer (RR) for those living in high air polluted versus relatively pure areas was 2.

[Surgical treatment of lung cancer in patients over 80 years of age].

Growth of the specific fraction of individuals over 80 years of age among patients with lung carcinoma is illustrated by its incidence in Moscow. These patients account today for up to 8% of the total number of cases. Some of them may be successfully treated by operation.

[Morbidity and surgical treatment of lung cancer in middle-aged and aged patients in Moscow].

Analysis of lung cancer incidence in Moscow residents shows that of late the rise in the incidence has occurred only in absolute number. Intensive rates remain stable. The number of cases in the age groups 1-59, 60-69 and 70 years and older is approximately the same.

[Malignant nonepithelial tumors of the lung].

The main peculiarities of the clinical course of lung sarcoma were determined from representative material of 134 patients. The main features differentiating malignant nonepithelial tumors from carcinoma of the lung are: younger age (average age 45.5 years), predominantly peripheral clinico-anatomical form (82.

[Lung cancer in women in Moscow (epidemiology, etiology and surgical treatment)].

In the studied period (1973-1987) the lung carcinoma morbidity rate among females of Moscow, in general intensive indices (per 100,000 females), showed a tendency to reduce (18.4 in 1973 and 15.1 in 1987).

[The immediate results of the surgical treatment of lung cancer in patients over 70 years of age].

The study was concerned with analysis of the data on 342 patients with lung cancer aged more than 70 years, 170 of whom had undergone surgery (peripheral cancer--117, central--53). Considering the poor functional status of the patients and their low compensatory potential, mostly organ-saving procedures (80.4%) (lobe-, bilobectomy, segmentectomy or wedge pneumonectomy) were used.

[Lung cancer in the elderly and middle-aged in Moscow and its surgical treatment].

Lung cancer morbidity in Moscow in recent years is discussed. Two-thirds of the patients were 60 years of age or older. Lung cancer operability in Moscow has remained relatively stable accounting for 10-15%.

[Lung cancer in men who have never smoked].

Among 5,400 male patients with lung cancer examined at Oncological Dispensaries of Moscow and Khabarovsk in 1967-1982, 37 men (0.7%) had never smoked. The latter group was characterized by prevalent incidence of glandular form of cancer and a relatively high percentage of old and middle-aged patients.