Introduction

Lung cancer remains among the commonest form of cancer in both males and females in Ireland with over 2,500 new cases each year. Unfortunately, a large portion of patients present with inoperable advanced disease and in patients with curable lung cancer – even after surgery, radiotherapy and...

Case study 1: Chemotherapy in lung cancer

A 57-year-old man with a 30 pack-year smoking history presented to his GP with non-specific chest pain

A chest radiograph revealed a right upper lobe coin lesion (see Figure 1). The patient was referred urgently to the rapid access lung clinic (RALC).

At the...

Case study 1

A 55-year-old man presented with a one-year history of left-sided subscapular pain which was pleuritic in nature

Work-up revealed a suspicious pulmonary nodule, and MRI thoracic spine and pelvis demonstrated osseous metastatic disease within the thoracic spine and pelvis. The patient was a...

Case study 1

A 58-year-old woman with a history of neurofibromatosis was referred to the rapid access lung clinic with persistent cough, weight loss and clubbing

CT thorax confirmed a 5.1cm mass in the left upper lobe (see Figure 1), with invasion of the mediastinum and a second 3.7cm mass in the left...

Approximately 60% of non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) are metastatic at diagnosis.¹ The diagnosis of metastatic (stage IV) lung cancer has long been associated with a dismal prognosis, and median survival times of less than one year, however the era of personalised medicine and immunotherapy is bringing about...