Epidemiological features of lung cancer in Karaganda region

Abstract

The article studied the features of the course of lung cancer in patients who were hospitalized for the period 2011- 2021. It has been established that men are affected by lung cancer 3.5 times more often than women, people over 50 living in the city are more sick. Peripheral stage III cancer is more common among patients, which is detected by fluorography, 51% of metastases are observed in the middle lymph nodes, the main risk factors were smoking and chronic diseases of the respiratory system 44.88% and 33.31%, respectively. Chronic respiratory diseases were the most commonly reported chronic acute respiratory viral infections and chronic bronchitis in 11.22% and 10.24% respectively. The main types of treatment for patients were chemotherapy (48%) and surgery (43%). The minimum number of patients’ stay in the hospital was 1 bed-days, the maximum number was 51 days. On average, patients were hospitalized for 7-9 days.