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    SMOKING HABIT AS A RISK FACTOR ASSOCIATED WITH OCCURRENCE OF LUNG CANCER
    (Faculty of Medicine, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, 2024-07)
    Dimitrievska, Ljubica
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    Grivcevska, Milena
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    Nehteparova, Meliha
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    Lung cancer is one of the most common causes of mortality in the world, right after cardiovascular diseases. The motivation for conducting this study was the fact that the number of newly diagnosed and death cases from lung cancer has been constantly growing, especially in the last few years. The aim of the study was to present lung cancer (LC) as a public health problem today at the global level as well as in the Republic of North Macedonia. This is an analytical case-control study. It included all patients with a confirmed diagnosis of lung cancer (LC) with histopathological analysis (examined group) and patients who have not had any history of malignancy (control group), in a period of six months. Survey data were collected using a specially designed questionnaire. The study included a total of 82 respondents in both, the examined and the control group. Regarding the habit of cigarette smoking, the largest percentage of examined respondents (56%) were current smokers, compared to the control group where the largest percentage (56%) were non-smokers. The results obtained showed that the two groups differed significantly with regards to the habit of cigarette smoking. This study confirmed the association of cigarette smoking habit and lung cancer, where several variables related to smoking were examined (age at which cigarette smoking started, number of cigarettes smoked per day, duration of smoking status, type of cigarettes).
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    SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LUNG CANCER PATIENTS IN NORTH MACEDONIA
    (Macedonian Association of Anatomists, 2024-04)
    Dimitrievska, Ljubica
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    Stefanoska, Julijana
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    Nehteparova, Meliha
    Lung cancer disease is one of the most common causes of mortality in the world, coming right after cardiovascular diseases. It is a big and is a special problem in the highly developed countries, especially in the USA, but also in developing countries. The reason for the research is the fact that the number of newly diagnosed and death cases from lung cancer is constantly growing, especially in the last few years. The aim of the study is to determine the influence of socio-demographic factors in the occurrence of lung cancer(gender, age, national and ethnic origin, place of residence) and smoking as the main risk factor associated with this neoplasm. The research is a descriptive study in which 82 patients with pathohistological confirmed lung cancer participated. It was implemented at the Institute for Oncology and Radiotherapy at the clinical center in Skopje for a period of 3 months. A total of 82 patients were registered from Institute for Oncology and Radiotherapy in Skopje, North Macedonia who were diagnosed with primary lung cancer. Of all, 64.7% of them were males and 35.3% were females. Histologically, 51.2% had adenocarcinoma, 25.6 had squamous cell carcinoma, 20.7% had small cell carcinoma and 7.4% had no small cell carcinoma. It was observed that the proportion of females diagnosed with primary lung cancer is increasing. Patients get diagnosed at a later stage of the disease, which calls for screening and early detection of lung cancer.