Lung cancer is now one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the world. It is usually associated with heavy smokers, but now has become a major concern for both occasional smokers and non-smokers alike. Lung cancer now kills more than twice the number of women than breast cancer kills, and is also found to be a lot more common in men than prostate cancer. Recent research showed women are 1.5 times more at risk of...
0 What Is The Difference Between Lung Cancer and Lymphoma?
There are two different types of cancer that may affect the lungs:1. Primary lung cancer is categorized as either small cell, or non-small cell, and usually begins in the lungs before it spreads to other parts of the body. Small cell is commonly associated with heavy smokers, where non-small cell may include other types of cancers such as squamous cell, large cell carcinoma, and adenocarcinoma.Symptoms may include a persistent...
0 What Exactly Is Lung Cancer?
Lung cancer, one of the most prevalent and potentially the deadliest cancers in the world, is a disease of the lung tissue. Cancer is a disease that can begin in virtually any organ tissue of the body. Due to internal and external factors, a single cell can mutate into a cell that is abnormal. This cell multiplies, and the growing group of cells can attack normal cells in the tissue, or the cancerous cells can turn into a mass...
0 4 Tips For Preventing Lung Cancer
Although smoking is the main contributor to causing lung cancer, and giving-up the habit is an important factor in the prevention of it. There are still some other preventative measures that a person can be take.1. Smoking in the leading cause of lung cancer, as it is responsible for between 80% and 90% of all diagnosed lung cancer cases. However, it is never to late to give-up smoking, as the benefits to the body are almost...
0 Adenocarcinoma Lung Cancer
Glandular tissue cancer is a type of adencarcinoma, and can affect different parts of the body. Such affected regions in the body include the stomach, the breasts, the colon, cervix, prostate and pancreas just to name a few. One particularly common type of glandular cancer is adenocarcinoma of the lung.Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lung is responsible for approximately 40 to 50 percent of diagnosed lung cancers each year. It...
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