Cancer of the lung in women.

Cancer of the lung in women has the same signs and symptoms as in men, but the disease seems to advance more rapidly. Of 35 female patients, half were under radiation therapy (for inoperable tumor) within four months after the first manifestation. In three of the five who had no symptoms, the cancer when diagnosed was inoperable. Scalene node biopsy confirmed metastasis in nine of the eleven cases in which it was used, and this procedure should be used after diagnosis whenever metastasis is not evident. Of the 35 women, two received only chemotherapy, 32 radiotherapy. Only four were alive at the time of report-one without evidence of disease at 20 months, one with symptoms of disease at 11 months, two under chemotherapy at two months, For 29 who received palliative or radical irradiation to the primary tumor site, the median survival time was 26 weeks.