3. Bronchogenic Carcinoma
• Cancer of lungs tissues, epithelial origin
• Most common cause of cancer mortality
• Most frequently diagnosed
• Occurs in between 40-70 yrs
• Peak incidence ; 50s and 60s
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4. Etiopathogenesis
• Tobacco smoking ( most common )
• Industrial hazards
• Air pollution
• Dietary factors
• Molecular genetics
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5. Tobacco Smoking
• 80% of lungs tumor in active smokers and those stopped recently
• 60 times greater risk among habitual smokers
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• There is linear correlation between lung cancer and pack years of
smoking
• Women have higher
susceptibility to carcinogens in tobacco than male
• Mutagenic effects of
carcinogens are modified
by genetic variation
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6. Tobacco Smoking
• Highly pleomorphic P-450 monooxygenase enzyme
• Individual whose peripheral blood lymphocytes show
more numerous chromosomal breakages after exposure
to carcinogens of cigarette have 10 fold higher risk
• Carcinogens of tobacco: tar , polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbon, nitrosamines
• Cigar and pipe smoking
• Passive smokers have double risk than non smokers
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7. Industrial hazards
• Asbestos , arsenic , chromium , uranium , mustard gas
• High dose ionizing radiation
• Uranium , 4 times risk among non smokers , 10 times risk
among smokers
• Asbestos , 5 times risk among non smokers , 55 times risk
among smokers
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8. Air pollution
• Add to the risks in smokers and second hand smokers
-Radon gas
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Chronic exposure to air
particulate
Lung irritation
Inflammation
repair
11. Squamous cell carcinoma
• Chromosome deletion involving tumor suppressor loci
3p,9p ,17p
• Loss of expression of RB tumor suppressor gene
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12. Small cell carcinoma
• Loss of function mutation of TP53(75%-90%) , RB(close
to 100%) , chrosmosomal 3p deletions
• Amplification of genes of MYC family
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13. Adenocarcinoma
• Gain of function mutation of proto-oncogenes
• Mutation of gene encoding receptor tyrosine kinase:
EGFR, ALK, ROS, MET, RET
• Tumors without mutation in tyrosine kinase have mutation
in KRAS
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14. Lung cancer in never smokers
-25%of lung cancer occur in never smokers
-Mostly in women and adenocarcinoma
-Likely to have EFGR mutation
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15. Pre-invasive lesion
Begins with basal cell hyperplasia
Squamous metaplasia
Squamous dysplasia
Carcinoma in-situ
Invasive cancer
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