ILD diagnosis raises risk for lung cancer

Key takeaways:

The risk for lung cancer was heightened among those with vs. without ILD in a model that adjusted for five covariates.

This continued in sibling-controlled analyses of patients with ILD and siblings without ILD.

Perspective from Amy Hajari Case, MD, FCCP

Individuals with vs. without interstitial lung disease faced an elevated risk for lung cancer and histological subtypes of lung cancer in adjusted and sibling-controlled analyses, according to results published in JAMA Network Open .

Weimin Ye

“Patients with ILD are at an elevated risk of developing lung cancer across all subtypes, especially rare and aggressive forms such as small cell lung cancer, which often has a poor prognosis,” Weimin Ye, MD, PhD , professor in the department of medical epidemiology and b