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Lung Cancer

The signs and symptoms of lung cancer may take years to appear and are often confused with symptoms of less serious conditions. Signs and symptoms may not appear until the disease reaches an advanced stage. Quitting smoking reduces a persons risk a lot although former smokers remain at greater risk for lung cancer than people who never smoked. Exposure to other carcinogens like asbestos and radon gas also increases a persons risk, especially when combined with cigarette or cigar smoking. Lumps of cancer cells or as we call them tumors then form and disrupt the lung, making it hard to do things normally. There are four different types of lung cancer that has been recorded. The types are small lung cancer, Squamous cell carcinoma, large cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. Tobacco smoking is mainly the cause to the first three cancers. With the last cancer it is linked to low-tar cigarettes. The thing that causes lung cancer the most is smoking or the second hand smoke of tobacco the other causes are breaking in chemicals such as asbestos or any other natural radioactive gases or radon. The older you get the easier it is for you to get lung cancer plus the longer you smoke the faster your going to get it. Very few people have gotten lung cancer at the age of forty. The most common age to get lung cancer is 70 to 74. In the United States ninety-one thousand men and seventy-nine thousand women are diagnosed with lung caner each year.
Lung cancer doesn't really run in a family. There has been few if any reported cases. Not all people who smoke get lung cancer and an inherited trait may be the reason why those people get lung cancer from smoking or just second hand smoking. With all the research that has been gathered to this date diet does not affect the chance of you getting lung cancer. There are many symptoms to determine whether you have lung cancer or not one is shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. Some others are coughing up...