TY - JOUR T1 - Granulomatous reaction in a patient with lung cancer: should we treat it? JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - e94 LP - e99 DO - 10.1183/20734735.014617 VL - 14 IS - 3 AU - Ashish K. Jain AU - Vishal K. Chitikeshi AU - Pritha Nayyar AU - Nitin Dayal AU - Anuja Anand Y1 - 2018/09/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/14/3/e94.abstract N2 - The presence of granulomatous reaction and lung cancer at the same time is a rare occurrence, which confuses clinicians in deciding the line of treatment. In tuberculosis (TB) endemic regions, the dilemma of considering the presence of TB adds a further complication.In TB endemic regions, granulomatous inflammation in the samples from a tumour in the lung or in the draining lymph nodes will not be sufficient to diagnose TB as granulomas can also arise as a reaction to tumour cells http://ow.ly/tOTm30kSFAY ER -