Cancers pulmonaires associés à une pathologie interstitielle pulmonaire fibrosante

Abstract

The occurrence of lung cancer in patients with diffuse fibrosing pneumonitis is neither fortuitous nor rare. Diagnosis strategy and therapeutics are currently poorly standardized, and there is no expert consensus available in Europe. Therapeutic strategy is limited by the poor underlying respiratory function, the risk of respiratory exacerbation favored by some treatments, age and comorbidities, and more generally by the underlying frailty of patients with lung fibrosis. In the current article we will review the epidemiology, the diagnosis management, and the necessary data for discussing local or systemic therapeutics.