加《医学邮报》第17卷第21期(1981年)报道多伦多消息:经受过外周血管手术后的病人可能患肺癌或发展为肺癌的发病率是正常人群的10倍。蒙特利尔大学外科副教授比彻姆(GillesBeauchamp)在从1974～1979年间作过外周血管手术的541名病人中发现肺癌的发病率为3.5％,她说,在相同年龄(平均65岁)的正常人群中,肺癌的发病率为0.35％。他在加拿大皇家内科和外科医师学会年会 Plus, Medical Post, Vol. 17, No. 21 (1981) reported in Toronto: Patients who have undergone peripheral vascular surgery may develop 10 times more lung cancer or develop lung cancer. Gilles Beauchamp, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Montreal, found that the incidence of lung cancer was 3.5% in 541 patients who had undergone peripheral vascular surgery from 1974 to 1979, she said, in the normal population of the same age (average 65 years). The incidence of lung cancer was 0.35%. He is at the annual meeting of the Royal Society of Internal Medicine and Surgeons in Canada