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Lung Cancer

Published on Mar 17, 2016

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LUNG CANCER

  • Noncommunicable
  • By: Kaylee K.
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LOCATION OF DISEASE AND HOW IT SPREADS

  • Hungary
  • The most common areas that lung cancer spreads to are the lymph nodes in the chest, abdomen, neck, armpit, liver and the brain.
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PEOPLE WHO NORMALLY GET LUNG CANCER

  • Are men and women who smoke.
  • Women who never have smoked have a higher risk at getting lung cancer.
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SYMPTOMS OF LUNG CANCER

  • Weight loss
  • Chest pain
  • Coughing up blood
  • Feeling tired or weak
  • Shortness of breath
  • Infections that don't go away or keep coming back
  • Skin turing yellow
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INTERFERE A PERSON'S DAILY LIFE

  • Tired going on a walk or to work
  • Running bad chest pain
  • Can't lift stuff because you're tired or weak
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HOW LUNG CANCER IS TREATED

  • Surgery, when doctors cut out cancer tissues.
  • Chemotherapy special medicines,to shrink or kill cancer.
  • Targeted therapy using drugs to block the growth and spread of cancer cells.
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HOW LUNG CANCER CAN BE PREVENTED

  • Don't smoke
  • Stop smoking
  • Avoid second hand smoke
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FACTS

  • Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer of of both men and women in America
  • 81% of those living with lung cancer are over the age of 60
  • Nearly 400,000 people in the U.S., are living with lung cancer
  • More than half of those with lung cancer pass away within a year of diagnosis

Kaylee Krzoska