These cancers were named after an American doctor called Professor Henry Pancoast in 1932. They are also called superior pulmonary sulcus tumours. Cancers in the top part of the lung are rare. Fewer ...

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Pancoast's tumor represents 1-3% of all lung cancers and was initially described in 1838 by Dr. Edward Hare. However, its name is known from the radiologic description of the tumor in 1924 by Dr.

Henry Pancoast Pendergrass, 83, M.D., M.P.H., a nationally honored radiologist and educator who resided at Waverly Heights in Gladwyne, died of respiratory failure on Sunday, Sept. 21, at Bryn Mawr ...