[Clinical analysis of 99 young patients with lung cancer in different nationalities in Xinjiang].

Background: To study clinicopathological characteristics and national distribution of lung cancer in patients who were younger than 40 years of age in Xinjiang.

Methods: The records of 99 patients who were younger than 40 years of age with lung cancer who were diagnosed in our hospital from September, 1989 to July, 2001 were reviewed. Analyses as to gender, nationalities, misdiagnosis and pathological types were performed.