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Lung Cancer

Published on Dec 10, 2015

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LUNG CANCER

A CANCER THAT BEGINS IN THE LUNGS AND MOST OFTEN OCCURS IN PEOPLE WHO SMOKE
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CAUSES

  • Air pollution
  • Cigarette smoking
  • Pipe and cigar smoking
  • Second-hand smoke
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SIGNS/SYMPTOMS

  • Coughing/spitting out blood
  • Shortness of breath
  • Weezing
  • Hoarsness
  • Pain or weekness
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  • Respitory infections
  • Swelling of neck and face
  • Loss of appetite
  • Severe headaches
  • Difficulty swallowing
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TYPES

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SMALL CELL (SCLC)

  • Rapidly growing
  • Most dangerous
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NON-SMALL CELL (NSCLC)

  • Most common
  • Adenocarcinomas
  • Squamos cell carcinomas
  • Large cell carcinomas
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ADENOCARCINOMAS

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LYMPH NODES

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SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMS

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LARGE CELL CARCINOMAS

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STAGES

  • Cancer is confined in the lung
  • Spreads to other parts of lung
  • Spreads to lymph nodes
  • Spreads outside of the lung and to other parts of the body
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TREATMENT

  • Surgery
  • Radiation
  • Targeted therapy
  • Chemotherapy
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FACTS

  • Leading cancer killer in the US
  • Around 158,040 americans are expected to die
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Bibliography

www.lung.org
www.webmd.com

Marnie Reese