Lung cancer and respiratory commorbidity / 中国实用内科杂志

Lung cancer comorbidity is common in patients. This review focuses on the clinical situations and treatment of patients with both lung cancer and one of the following: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD), pulmonary embolism(PE) or interstitial lung disease(ILD). Generally, these patients have more limitations on selecting cancer-related therapies, and they have shorter survival time and higher mortality than patients who had lung cancers only.