Open AccessThe Incidence of Hyponatraemia and Its Effect on the ECOG Performance Status among Lung Cancer Patients
Author(s) -
Amitabha Sengupta,
Sourindra Nath Banerjee,
Nirendra Mohan Biswas,
Debraj Jash,
Sushmita Kaushik,
Arnab Kumar Maji,
Ankan Bandyopadhyaya,
Sandip Agarwal
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2013/5900.3225
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , lung cancer , cancer , oncology , mathematics , geometry
Hyponatraemia is one of the common electrolytic disorders which are associated with lung cancer. Hyponatraemia may influence the ECOG performance status at presentation. Also, to the best of our knowledge, we found only limited Indian studies where the ECOG score was correlated with the serum sodium status in lung cancer patients on presentation.