This document discusses lung cancer, including its various types and treatments. Lung cancer is not a single disease, but rather involves abnormal and uncontrolled cell growth in lung tissues. The major types of lung cancer are those involving the lungs themselves, such as non-small cell lung cancer, as well as small cell lung cancer. Risk factors for lung cancer include cigarette smoking, secondhand smoke exposure, and family history. Diagnosis involves physical exams, tests of tissues and fluids, and imaging tests. Treatment depends on the cancer type and stage, and may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, or a combination of approaches.

3.  Abnormal growth of cells.
 Tends to proliferate in an uncontrolled way.
 Cancer is not one disease.
 Involve in any tissue of the body.
 Have many different forms in each body area.
 Hippocrates discovered cancer.

4. There are many types of cancer but some major types are…
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5.  Uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of lungs.
 Also termed as Bronchogenic Carcinomas.
 Begins in the lungs .
 May spread to lymph nodes or other organs.
 When cancer cells spread from one organ to another, called metastasis.

7. Adenocarcinoma Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Large Cell Tumor Small Cell Lung Cancer

8. COMBINED SMALL CELL CARCINOMA
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Small Cell Carcinoma

10.  Anything that increases chances of getting a disease.
 Having a risk factor doesn't mean that you will get
the disease; not having risk factors doesn't mean that
you will never get the disease.

11. LUNG CANCER
Risk Factors & Cases
30-40% Cancer
related deaths in
Developing Countries.
USA Analysis
Causes more Deaths than any OTHER Cancer.

12. Family History
2nd Hand Smoking
Cigar Smoking
Cigarette Smoking

16. 1) Physical Exam & History:
An exam of the body to check general signs of health.
History of the patient’s health habits.
2) Laboratory Tests:
Test samples of tissue, blood, urine.
 These tests help to diagnose disease, plan and check
treatment, or monitor the disease over time.

22.  A test that uses antibodies to check for certain
antigens in a sample of tissue.
 The antibody is usually linked to a radioactive
substance or a dye that causes the tissue to light up
under a microscope.
 This type of test may be used to tell the difference
between different types of cancer

23.  Lung cancer is treated in several ways.
 Treatment & prognosis depends upon the type of lung cancer and
how far it has spread, also the patient’s age, gender, and general
health.
 People with non-small cell lung cancer can be treated with Surgery,
Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Hormone therapy, Radiation
therapy, Targeted therapy, or a combination of these treatments.
 People with small cell lung cancer are usually treated with
Radiation therapy and Chemotherapy.

24.  Most often used for advanced lung cancers
 Block the growth and spread of cancer cells.
 They sometimes work when chemo drugs don’t.
 They have less severe side effects.

26.  Recently emerged as a new treatment option for certain
lung cancers.
 While any cancer treatment can cause side effects,
immunotherapy is generally well-tolerated; this is in part
due to its mechanism of action.
 Immunotherapy uses our own immune system as a
treatment against cancer.

29. SUMMARY

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