Lung cancer

Name: Lung cancer
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Oncology · Known disease · updated 2026-10-29

BioMG follows French guidelines. Adapt it to the guidelines and the tests available where you practise.

Frequency: 169 718 people in 2017 ^[1]; 33 000 new cases in men and 19 000 in women in 2023 ^[2]

Follow-up after treatment (complete remission)

Detailed explanation and international comparison (in French): read it in English (machine translation)

Low sodium? Hyponatraemia may be paraneoplastic: if sodium is low, see the Hyponatraemia page.
On immunotherapy? On immunotherapy, see the Treatment: anticancer immunotherapy page.

Serum tumour markers (CEA, CYFRA 21-1, NSE, SCC…): no indication, whether for screening, diagnosis or follow-up of bronchopulmonary cancer ^[3].

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