Physician Related Delays in the Diagnosis of Lung Cancer in India.

Introduction: Lung cancer is associated with a poor prognosis, if detected late in the disease course. Delay in seeking health care, wrong diagnosis and delay in specialist referral can contribute to delay in diagnosis.

Aim: This study was done to assess physician related delays in the diagnosis of lung cancer and the treatments given before presenting to our center.

MDR- and XDR-TB among suspected drug-resistant TB patients in a tertiary care hospital in India.

Aim: To study the anti-tubercular drug resistance pattern among suspected cases of drug-resistant TB.

Materials And Methods: First and second line drug susceptibility data were retrospectively analysed for all suspected cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), presenting to the Pulmonary Medicine department of tertiary care hospital in South India from 2003 to 2007.

Results And Discussion: Out of 177 cases of suspected drug-resistant TB, 103 (58.