[Adaptational and thyroid homeostasis and the state of fat and carbohydrate metabolism in lung cancer].

An examination of over 100 patients with cancer and benign processes in the lung has demonstrated that the increased hypothalamic threshold to homeostatic inhibition in the adaptation system and a tendency to lowering of this threshold in the thyroid system are typical for lung cancer patients. Disturbances of the carbohydrate metabolism are more frequently observed in lung cancer than lipid metabolism disorders, recognized in approximately 1/5 of all patients. Whereas lipid metabolism disorders in lung cancer patients are more closely than those of carbohydrate metabolism correlated with the state of adaptation and thyroid homeostasis. The data obtained will be compared with the results of the corresponding observations in patients with mammary gland cancer.