PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mehta, Atul C.
AU  - Ahmad, Muzaffar
AU  - Nunez, Carlos
AU  - Golish, Joseph A.
TI  - Newer procedures using the fiberoptic bronchoscope in the diagnosis of lung cancer
DP  - 1987 May 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 195--203
VI  - 54
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/54/3/195.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/54/3/195.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1987 May 01; 54
AB  - The overall survival rate from lung cancer is barely over 10%, and in the last 25 years there has been no major therapeutic advancement. Chemotherapy has extended the survival among patients with small cell carcinoma by a few months, while resectional lung surgery remains the only curative procedure for other types. Making the diagnosis at the first suspicion of the disease, while it is still in a limited stage or resectable, is currently the only hope to improve the outcome of bronchogenic carcinoma. Fiber-optic bronchoscopy is a high-yield and noninvasive means of diagnosing this condition. The present article is a review of newer tests being developed to increase the utility of fiberoptic bronchos-copy in diagnosing and staging of bronchogenic carcinoma.