Health Solutions - Chronic Bronchitis

Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a board certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology.

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Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and a MD from the University of North Carolina. For instance, she completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology. For quite a few cases, the initial treatment is simple to prescribe but frequently ignored or rejected by the patient -stop smoking cigarettes and avoid secondhand bacco smoke. May be there are more yest to understand causes but these are important and proven. People might be encouraged in nearly any way to cease smoking, as continuation will only cause further lung damage. Doesn't it sound familiar? Similarly, blocking or removing other underlying causes of repeated bronchial irritation is a treatment goal. Generally, half of patients with chronic bronchitis who smoke will no longer cough after 1 smoking month cessation. On p of in the EGFR downstream target KRAS are frequently observed in 'nonsmall' cell lung cancer, mutations in epithelial growth factor receptor.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, an independent risk factor for developing NSCLC, is associated with an increased activation of EGFR.

In this study we determined presence of EGFR and KRAS hotspot mutations in 325 consecutive NSCLC patients subjected to EGFR and KRAS mutation analysis in the diagnostic setting and for whom the pulmonary function is determined at time of NSCLC diagnosis.

While smoking status, forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in 1 sec was defined in line with 2013 GOLD criteria, information about age at diagnosis. Known chi Square', student t test and multivariate logistic regression were used to analyze the data. Fact, a tal of 325 NSCLC patients were included, 193 with COPD and 132 without COPD. While EGFR mutations were significantly higher in 'non COPD' NSCLC patients, cOPD was not associated with presence of KRAS hotspot mutations. Both female gender than in males. So exon 19del mutation was more frequent in 'nonsmokers' compared to current or past smokers. Notice, are not associated with COPDstatus in NSCLC patients, KRAS mutations are more common in females and smokers. EGFR mutations are more common in non smoking NSCLC patients.