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Objectives: Lung cancer is the most common among cancer-related deaths worldwide. Non-small cell lung cancer represents between 80% and 85% of all lung cancer cases. Epidemiological and demographic characteristics of lung cancer may differ between the sexes in the same community and between communities. This study aims to determine demographic, epidemiological and clinical characteristics of clinical follow-up study of lung cancer patients as retrospectively. Materials and methods: Total 741 patients with non-small cell lung cancer who histopathologically diagnosed, treated and followed-up in Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Oncology, between 2000 and 2012, were retrospectively evaluated Results: 662 of patients (89.3%) were males and 79 (10.7%) females. The male/female ratio was 8.4. The median patient age was 60.0 (28-93) years. The histopathological types were as follows; 34.8% squamous cell carcinoma, 29.1% adenocarcinoma, 2% large cell carcinoma and 34.1% unspecified non-small cell lung carcinoma. Smoking rate in men was found as 92.2% and 10.1% in female patients. Stage of patients was 11.4% in local stage, 35.6% was in locally advanced and 53% was in metastatic stage. Conclusions: Ratio of squamous cell carcinoma and advanced stage in our study were higher than previous data of studies from Turkey. However, the other clinical and pathological findings were compatible with our country\'s and world data.

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