Hong Kong Respiratory Medicine

Sandro Vento, Massimiliano Lanzafame. The Lancet Oncology 2011; 12, Issue 6, 520 - 522
Tuberculosis has long been suspected to increase lung cancer risk, and cancer diagnosis and treatment to promote tuberculosis reactivation. Population-based studies have provided new insight into these important issues.

From universal insurance claims in Taiwan from 1998 to 2000, Yu and colleagues 1 identified 4480 patients with newly diagnosed tuberculosis from a cohort of more than 700 000 insured patients older than 20 years and without cancer, and compared the incidence of lung cancers between ...

Read more