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(Chest. 1957;31:23-34.)
© 1957 American College of Chest Physicians

The Crossing of the Curves: Tuberculosis and Lung Cancer

EDWARD KUPKA M.D., F.C.C.P.1 and LESTER BRESLOW M.D.2

1 Chief, Bureau of Tuberculosis, California State Department of Public Health.
2 Chief, Bureau of Chronic Diseases, California State Department of Public Health.

Among the serious chronic pulmonary diseases, cancer of the lung is challenging tuberculosis in frequency and has already surpassed it in mortality.

Essentially the same case-finding, diagnostic, and surgical machinery can be employed against the two diseases. As in the case of tuberculosis, cancer of the lung is revealing an epidemiologic pattern which may prove helpful in the understanding and control of the disease. Just as tuberculosis once had to be considered in the differential diagnosis of every case of chronic pulmonary disease, so today must cancer always receive consideration. No obscure lung disease can be considered as satisfactorily assessed until cancer has been excluded.






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