Hypercalcemia occurs in which type of lung cancer?

 # Hypercalcemia occurs in which type of lung cancer?

a) Oat cell

b) Giant cell

c) Squamous cell

d) Alveolar cell

The correct answer is C. Squamous cell carcinoma.

- Non metastatic  extrapulmonary manifestations of lung cancers include metabolic, endocrine neurological and vascular and hematological and skeletal features. 

- Endocrine (10%) (usually small cell carcinoma), ectopic adrenocorticotrophin syndrome, syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH), Hypercalcemia (Usually squamous cell carcinoma).

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