[Frequency of tonsillectomy in bronchial cancer patients (author's transl)]

Among 1415 bronchial cancer patients were 84 (5.94%) tonsillectomized observed. In an equal number of controls, selected according to the strictest criteria, there were 265 (18.7%) tonsillectomized. The latter figure corresponds to the lower limit for the frequency of tonsillectomies in the Federal Republic of Germany in the second half of the seventies. Thus these results show that bronchial cancer patients were subjected to tonsillectomy 3 times less than individuals not suffering from bronchial cancer. These results are in perfect agreement with previously obtained findings on the incidence of tonsillectomy in ENT tumors as well as in leukemia in children and adults.