"Pancoast tumours are uncommon, accounting for approximately 3–5% of all primary lung cancers, and thus represent a small subset of non‑small cell lung carcinomas. They share many demographic characteristics with other lung cancers, typically presenting in the sixth decade of life and occurring predominantly in individuals with a significant smoking history 14-16."
"Edward Selleck Hare (1812-1838), British physician, who died tragically at the age of 26 years from typhus 10"
"Publio Ciuffini, Italian physician: it is stated elsewhere that Ciuffini, a bona fide Italian physician of the early 20th century, described this entity in 1911; however an original reference remains elusive"
"Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875-1939) 11, American radiologist"
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"The term superior pulmonary sulcus has no accepted anatomical definition and is discouraged 12; however, the term ‘superior sulcus tumour’ is still used in the radiological, medical and surgical literature and is interchangeable with ‘Pancoast tumour’."
"Men are slightly more frequently affected. There is no strong evidence of a specific racial predilection; geographic variation largely mirrors that of lung cancer in general, with higher rates in regions where smoking prevalence is greater 13-16."
"Prognosis has improved with multimodality therapy; complete resection with negative margins and absence of nodal disease are favourable prognostic factors, whereas incomplete resection, mediastinal nodal disease, and distant relapse worsen outcomes. In modern series using trimodality treatment, 5 year survival is typically 30-50% among selected resectable patients, although reported outcomes vary by stage and study population 18,19."
"Publio Ciuffini, Italian physician: it is stated elsewhere that Ciuffini, a bona fide Italian physician of the early 20th century, described this entity in 1911; however an original reference remains elusive"
"The term superior pulmonary sulcus has no accepted anatomical definition and is discouraged 12; however, the term ‘superior sulcus tumour’ is still used in the radiological, medical and surgical literature and is interchangeable with ‘Pancoast tumour’."
"Men are slightly more frequently affected. There is no strong evidence of a specific racial predilection; geographic variation largely mirrors that of lung cancer in general, with higher rates in regions where smoking prevalence is greater 13-16."
"History and etymology"