LUNG CANCER

SYMPTOMS

• A cough that never goes away or gets worse
• Chest pains:deep breathing,coughing,laughing
• Hoarseness
• Weight loss or loss of Appetite
• Coughing up blood or spit
• Shortness of breathe
• Feeling tired or weak
• Infections bronchitis and pneumatic that don't go away
• New onset of wheezing

CAUSES

• Heavy exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
• Cigarette smoking

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO OCCUR?

• It depends on how much you smoke or how long you smoke

WHAT GENDER DOES IT OCCUR MOST IN?

• It occurs more in men it doesn't say why

HOW IS LUNG CANCER TRANSMITTED?

• When you have certain viruses
• Environmental genetics or cell mutation

HOW IS LUNG CANCER CHANGED?

• They found a way to treat it

TREATMENT/CURABLE

• Yes,treated with chemotherapy,surgery,radiotherapy, or some even combined

PREVENTIONS

• Don't smoke
• Stop smoking
• Avoid second hand smoke
• Test home for radan
• Avoid carcinogenic at work
• Eat a diet full of fruits and vegetables
• Exercise most days of the week

FACTS

• Anyone can get lung cancer
• Every patient should talk to their doctor about comprehensive genomic tumor testing
• Clinical trials

MORE FACTS

• About 170,000 people in United States are diagnosed with lung cancer each year
• Small cell cancer is called oat cell cancer,grows quickly

LUNG CANCER TRUE STATEMENT

• Lung cancer accounts for 27% of all lung cancer deaths and13% of all new cancers
• Black men are more likely to get lung cancer than white men
• 159,260 deaths in 2014 that's bout 436 deaths a day

SMOKE FACTS

• Cigarette smoking is responsible for 79% of lung cancers among women
• In 2002 169,400 new cases of lung cancer in U.S
• 90,200 among men and 79,200 among women according to A.C.S

L.C FACTS

• Is the number 1 cause of cancer deaths in U.S and worldwide
• 2 types spread quickly the S.C.L.C and N.S.C.L.C.

MORE,MORE,MORE

• 20.9% current smokers,60% former smokers, 17.9% non smokers
• 1/14 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer
• Lung cancer overtook breast cancer

CITE

• www.cancer.org/cancer/lung cancer-non-small-cell/moreinformation/lungcancerpreventionandearlydectection/lung-cancer-preventative-early-dectection-signs-and-symptoms
• www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/type/lung-cancer/about/lung-cancer-ri... hart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/20/how-quickly-does-lung-cancer-develope-for-smo...
• www.lung.org/lung-health-and-deisease/lungdisease-lookup/lung-cancer/learn-...
• www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasis/is-cancer-contagious

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