Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease and lung cancer: a retrospective case series
Xuefen Chen, Chen Gong · 2026
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Xuefen Chen and Chen Gong review thirteen patients who carried two lung diseases at once: lung cancer and nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease. Their 2026 retrospective case series spans January 2020 to January 2025 at a single institution. Sequencing of samples identified which mycobacterial species each patient harbored.
Adenocarcinoma was the commonest cancer type, found in seven of the thirteen patients. Mycobacterium avium complex and Mycobacterium abscessus led the infections. Eleven patients received anti-mycobacterial therapy, while two were watched after their symptoms eased under cancer treatment alone. Tailored ordering of the two treatments let most patients finish their cancer therapy. Two early-stage patients had surgery delayed until after a short course of infection treatment. Three patients had died by last follow-up, at a mean of about nineteen months. The authors note that infection control did not visibly worsen during combined care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xuefen Chen, Chen Gong |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |