[Retrospective study of 135 cases of lung neoplasms diagnosed between 1983 and 1993]

The authors expose the results of a retrospective study concerning 135 cases of neoplasia diagnosed by their Department between 1983 and 1993. The patients' age, their sex, their consume of tobacco, their survival from the moment of the diagnosis have been considered in the study. Likewise the clinical instrumental researches and their reliability, the different incidence of the examined pathology in the first and in the second part of the period considered. It is emerged from the collected data, that also in our territory there is an increasing tendency in the incidence of lung neoplasia, a generally short survival after the diagnosis, a strong prevalence of smokers among those people affected from the disease, the difficulty of an early diagnosis due to scarce specificity of the commonest symptoms. The final auspicious is that a more incisive diligence in prevention and significant progresses in clinical pharmacological research may determine a notable reduction of the incidence of such a dramatic pathology.