Resumen

MARTIN PINATE, Felipe. Pasado, presente y futuro del cáncer pulmonar. RFM [online]. 2006, vol.29, n.1, pp.23-28. ISSN 0798-0469.

Lung cancer is a tobacco-dependent disease and it’s the most frequent cause of cancer mortality for both sexes in the developed and developing countries. The present investigation has as goals up to date the subject, propose modifications in the epistemology in which the scientific investigation is based on that guides the study and treatment of lung cancer, as well as generating ideas for a more effective prevention. The methodology employed is guided by the complexity paradigm: quantitative, qualitative and dialectic moments about basis of the field investigation that was carried out in the José Ignacio Baldó Hospital Caracas, Venezuela, from which the final results indicated that 90 % of the studied cases corresponded to tobacco induced lung cancer, 88.6 % presented chronic obstructive lung disease and 95 % of the patients at the time of the diagnosis presented a progressed and advanced disease. The findings and results of the thematic exploration influence us to preliminary considerations in the hopes of the paradigmatic change in favor of longer life span for the future.

Palabras clave : Lung cancer; Past; Present; Future.