Patients with a lung cancer are changed: About a French monocentric cohort between 1990 and 2010

Background: Authors report the analysis of monocentric cohort of 1400 patients with lung cancer followed between 01.01.1990 and 31.12.2009. Methods: see table. View this table: Results: This analysis shows the increase of adenocarcinoma with increase of female patients, of non smoker-status and increase of diagnosis by TDM punction. Non small cell is stable. Median age of diagnosis is a little bit increasing. The increase of stage IV and the decrease of stage III is due to a best staging with the routine use of PET and RMI procedures since 2000. Conclusion: This cohort is the largest single center in French literature. The analysis over 20 years shows epidemiological and histological changes.