Introduction:

Lung cancer is a chronic disease and it constitutes a public health problem worldwide.

Objective:

To determine factors related to lung cancer mortality.

Methods:

A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 7 patients with lung cancer at Ramón López Peña polyclinic in Caimanera municipality, Guantánamo province from 2017 to 2019.

Results:

In the study, the female sex predominanted with 5 smoking patients who represented 42.8%, included in the age group between 60-69 years (71.4%). Out of the patients studied with personal pathological history of chronic respiratory disease, those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were more frequent, representing 85.7%. Lung cancer was the basic cause of death. In 2018, mortality increased in three cases, and in 2019 it decreased to two cases.

Conclusions:

It was determined the factors related to the decrease in lung cancer mortality from the increase in other cancers.

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