The Histology of Lung Cancer

With the great advances in thoracic surgery, radical excision for pulmonary carcinoma has become a relatively safe and frequent operation, offering to the patient new hope of cure. However, if the results of operative treatment are to be accurately assessed, the ordinary gross pathology must be carefully and fully recorded, for it is of little use comparing survival rates unless attention is paid not only to the different histological types of growth, but also to anatomical factors such as location, size, and site of origin, which can seriously affect the outcome.