The Problem of Oat-Cell Carcinoma

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Abstract
OAT-cell carcinoma has always had a deadly fascination for those who deal with cancer of the lung. A recent report in the Lancet* by a distinguished working party of the Medical Research Council clearly emphasizes the special nature of this highly malignant form of bronchogenic carcinoma and reinforces the widely held opinion that a bronchoscopic diagnosis of oat-cell carcinoma may be a categorical contraindication to operation.It is too much to expect universal agreement on the cell characteristics of any malignant tumor of the lung. Oat-cell, or small-cell undifferentiated, carcinoma, however, is generally accepted as histologically distinct from squamous-cell and . . .

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