Risk factors in the etiology of lung cancer

The complex plurifactorial determinism of lung cancer demonstrates the need to know the causes and mechanisms of carcinogenesis. We carried out the statistical analysis of 116 patients diagnosed with lung cancer, in the Clinic of Pneumology, Cluj-Napoca, between 1999-2005. We analized the age and the gender of the patients, the origin of the patients, risk factors for lung cancer - LC (especially smoking and toxic environment at work) in correlation with the histological type, their pathological personal history and heredocolateral antecedents with risk of developing lung cancer correlated with the histological type and patients' characteristics, aiming at the existence of a basis of genetic predisposition to cancer in the patients taking part in the study Despite the progress recorded in translating the mechanisms of carcinogenesis and diagnostic imaging, lung cancer cure rates are still low. The key intervention in reducing LC is prophylaxis:quiting smoking