small cell lung carcinoma
Findings
No curated finding names small cell lung carcinoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly aggressive malignant neoplasm, accounting for 10-15% of lung cancer cases, characterized byrapid growth, and early metastasis. SCLC usually manifests as a large hilar mass with bulky mediastinal lymphadenopathy presenting clinically with chest pain, persistent cough, dyspnea, wheezing, hoarseness, hemoptysis, loss of appetite, weight loss, and neurological and endocrine paraneoplastic syndromes. SCLC is primarily reported in elderly people with a history of long-term tobacco exposure.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0008433), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
1 feature
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Small cell lung carcinomaHPOHP:0030357
Where it sits
- Narrower terms (2)
Other names
13 names
Resolves to: small cell lung carcinoma
- Also called
- lung oat cell carcinomalung small cell carcinomalung small cell neuroendocrine carcinomaoat cell carcinoma of lungoat cell carcinoma of the lungoat cell lung carcinomasmall cell cancer of the lung, somaticsmall cell carcinoma of lungsmall cell carcinoma of the lungSmall cell lung cancersmall cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of lungsmall cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lungsmall-cell cancer of lung