Abstract

VILLALBA CALOCA, JAIME  and  MARTINEZ HEREDERO, RAFAEL. FRECUENCIA DEL CARCINOMA BRONCOPULMONAR EN PACIENTES FUMADORES Y NO FUMADORES DIAGNOSTICADOS EN EL INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS EN EL AÑO 2001. Rev. Inst. Nal. Enf. Resp. Mex. [online]. 2004, vol.17, n.1, pp.27-34. ISSN 0187-7585.

Introduction: It was decided to make this work to know the frequency of the pulmonary carcinome in patient smokers and non-smokers diagnosed in the INER during the year of 2001 also to know how the frequency of the carcinome to bronchopulmonary in smokers by packages year. Material and methods: The analysis of this retrospective study corresponds to 226 cases of carcinome bronchopulmonary in smokers and non-smokers, in first 129 appeared corresponded 108 to masculine sex and 21 to feminine sex; as it can be observed predominated of the masculine sex by which the smokers increase their risk of contracting a malignant tumor to bronchopulmonary after have consumed 10 or more packages year by more than 10 years like minimum 10 cigarettes by day. Of the total of the patient smokers 17 passed away of who 15 were of masculine sex and 2 of feminine sex, also in the deaths those of masculine sex predominated. Discussion: Of the total of the 226 patients that presented carcinome bronchopulmonary in the 12 months of the year 2001, 68 corresponded patients non-smokers being of the male sex 17 and 51 of the female sex, as the major increment can be observed of the carcinome bronchopulmonary in our casuistic and presented with greater frequency in not smokers of the female sex that compared with the male the habitual smokers. The age of presentation so much in the male sex as in the female one with greater frequency is of the 5a to the 7a decade of the life. It should be referred to the fixing that the carcinome bronchopulmonary dominate the smokers of the male sex and in the not smokers in the same decades. Of the patients that presented carcinome bronchopulmonary that they were 129 dominated the adenocarcinoma right in relation to the left, continued it the carcinome epidermics and the adenocarcinome of small cells.

Keywords : Pulmonary carcinome; cigarette addiction; cigarette index; histological lineage.