Demographic Clinical And Treatment Patterns Of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Seen In Tikur Anbessa Specialized Referral Hospital Radiotherapy Center Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2017-2020
Background: Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancerrndeath worldwide. There are two main types of lung cancer, non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) andrnsmall-cell lung cancer (SCLC). Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 80% to 85% ofrnlung cancer. Even though lung carcinoma is the 6th most frequent malignancy in male based on datarnfrom Addis Ababa city-based cancer registry, there is lack of published data on demographic,rnclinical, and treatment patterns of non-small cell lung cancers in Ethiopia. rnObjective: To determine the demographic, clinical, and treatment patterns of non-small cell lungrncancer patients seen in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Referral Hospital, Radiotherapy Center, AddisrnAbaba, Ethiopia, 2017-2020 rnMethodology: A retrospective cross-sectional study design on histopathologically confirmed nonsmallrnrncell lung cancer patients treated from September 2017 to September 2020. Descriptivernstatistics (mean, SD, frequency, percentage, graph and table) and chi-square results were generatedrnby using SPSS version 25. P-value of