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A very interesting and informative histology exam of 30 examples for diagnostic experts is given by Glatz-Krieger & Glatz at http://www.unibas.ch/patho/lungenzyto/loesung/ca4eb.htm.

In México in the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias in 1997-2002, 845 patients were diagnosed with lung cancer 58 1/ 68.3 % had small-cell carcinoma, 2/ 20.7 % had squamous cell carcinoma and 3/ 11 % had various other histopathologies. For the classification of stages of lung cancer, see Mountain (Chest 111: 1710-1717, 1997).

See also http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec1491/index.htm and http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancerinfo/wyntk/lung on lung cancer, and

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec1551/index.htm on epidemiology in Mexico.

Adenocarcinoma is the histopathologic subtype most frequent in young men and has a smaller proportion of smokers.