Pneumonia as a cause of death in patients with lung cancer
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is the fourth most common in respect of the frequency of occurrence (the morbidity index is about 8 in 100,000). All together every year about 20,000 new cases of the disease are recorded, and at the same time about 18,000 people die of lung cancer (in 1990 the number of deaths amounted to 19,301, and in 1998 to about 17,000 with the average death rate of 44.2).1,2 The main causes of death in patients with lung cancer are local progression of the disease, metastases to remote organs and the Introduction
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