Histological Types of Lung Cancer

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Now we're talking about histology/ histological when and you've identified a nodule on a chest

 x-ray or a cat scan or maybe there's something in the liver as you know lung cancer likes to

leave its home base and go to other places we get a biopsy and that biopsy is going to help us

two ways one it's going to tell us what the origin of the the tissue is and two is what subtype of

tumor is it so in the case of lung cancer we try to first identify whether it's a non small-cell or

small cell lung cancer and then within the non small cell lung cancer grouping which consists

of about eighty five percent of all of lung cancer there are multiple different histology

subtypes that means a pathologist looks at it under a microscope is looking at it like you

would look at artwork on the wall and trying to identify whether it's an impressionist period

or it's a different period of time and and that's why they're doing it sometimes they'll run

some basic tests that they can do in their pathology lab to help further classify one or the

other histology subtypes the most common subtype is adenocarcinoma again this is just the

name of a non small cell lung cancer subtype there are also subtypes called squamous cell

cancer and then again those are the two major types there are then a whole host of others you

will hear terminology such as large cell carcinoma neuroendocrine carcinoma there's even a

classification called n OS meaning not otherwise specified and about ten to fifteen percent of

the time we can see this what does that mean what still means it's lung cancer and it usually

means it's non-small cell lung cancer but they there was not enough tissue or the architecture

was not preserved enough during the biopsy procedure that the pathologist can completely

classify this tumor and that's problematic because now we have therapies that are specifically

tailored for some patients who have adenocarcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma there are

not as many therapies out there tailored for the large cell or neuroendocrine tumors and again

 these just represent different cell types that exist in the lung and those are the ones that

decide to grow and become misbehaving and they evolve into a cancer and that's why they have their particular names you.

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