DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2022.v10i10.030

Pages: 1761-1764

Lung cancer is a current public health problem, as its incidence continues to rise, especially in women. The aim of the study was to evaluate epidemiological, clinical and histological profile of women’s lung cancer. A retrospective study including women patients with a confirmed lung cancer followed at the Pneumology Department of University Hospital Center Mohammed VI of Marrakesh in Morocco between January 2016 and june 2021. 34 cases were included in the study. The average age of patients was 58 years. Active smoking was present in 15.4% and passive smoking in 40% of patients. Wood smoke exposure was found in 57.7% of patients. Intraparenchymal opacities were the most frequent radiological feature in 58% of cases. Chest CT scans, performed in all women, showed an intraparenchymal mass in 78% of cases. Histological confirmation was obtained by bronchial fibroscopy (56%), trans-parietal biopsy (28%), and pleural biopsy (16%). The most frequent histological type was adenocarcinoma (56.1%), followed by squamous cell carcinoma (36.3%) and small cell carcinoma (7.6%). The stage of the disease is metastatic in 51% of cases. The most frequent metastatic locations were pleura (38.5%), bone (23%), brain (15%), and liver (7.6%).