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Medical and Legal Issues in Lung Cancer

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Lung cancer is an enormous topic and accordingly, no pretense will be made to cover the topic in its entirety. This chapter will touch up on those aspects of lung cancer that have legal significance. Readers are referred to the larger treatises in the medical literature of which there is no dearth.1–3 Lung cancer is the predominant fatal neoplasm of our times. In 1987, approximately 155,000 cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. Whereas advances in the clinical management of lung cancer have been stymied, our understanding of cancer in the laboratory has accelerated dramatically. This is largely due to our understanding of cell cytogenetics and molecular alterations, which distinguish the malignant cell from its normal counterpart.

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  1. James R. Vevaina MD
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pulmonary Lab, Flushing Medical Center, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  2. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  3. Pulmonary division, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  4. State of New York and Consolidated Edison Corporation, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  5. Flushing Hospital and Medical Center, 4500 Parsons Boulevard, Flushing, NY, 11355, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  6. Department of Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Roger C. Bone MD, FACP, FCCP (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman) (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman)

  7. Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, 2nd and 11th Judicial Districts, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

  8. Pace University, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

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    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

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Vevaina, J.R., Hirsh, H.L. (1989). Medical and Legal Issues in Lung Cancer. In: Vevaina, J.R., Bone, R.C., Kassoff, E. (eds) Legal Aspects of Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4534-6_21

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