Abstract
Lung cancer is the most prevalent cancer in men and the third-most common cancer among women and being so common it is responsible for mortality of around 1 million people per year around the globe. And when this is combined with another deadly disease like tuberculosis, the mortality goes even higher. Symptoms such as cough or expectoration, fever, haemoptysis, weight loss and appetite loss are common to both tuberculosis and lung cancer and this leads to misdiagnosis or missing of either of the disease when both occur together, leading to delay in proper treatment to the patient. A high clinical suspicion is hence important to diagnose the disease. Here we present a case of development of tuberculosis in a patient on treatment for lung cancer.
Keywords: Tuberculosis, Lung Biopsy, Lung Malignancy.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Hina Afreen
3rd Year Pulmonary Medicine Post Graduate, Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v9i7.17
