Lung cancer is caused by smoking and other carcinogenic substances. It is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lungs. While early lung cancer may cause no symptoms, later symptoms can include coughing, coughing up blood, chest pain, shortness of breath, and weight loss. Treatment options include surgery to remove cancerous parts of the lung, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Quitting smoking and avoiding secondhand smoke can help prevent lung cancer.

1. Lung Cancer
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2. What is Lung Cancer?
• Lung cancer is the unconstrained growth of abnormal cells
in lung
• Lung cancer is a disease
• It has no cure

3. What causes Lung Cancer?
• Lung Cancer is caused by smoking
• People take a risk of lung cancer with every cigarette they
smoke
• Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals in which
doctors have proven could cause carcinogenic
• Any substance that may cause or produce cancer
• Passive smoking could also cause lung cancer
• Just breathing smoke could cause you to get lung cancer
• any substance or agent tha

4. How common is Lung Cancer ?
• Lung cancer is very common not only through the United
States but throughout the world
• It is common is both women and men
• The American Cancer Society "estimated that that 222,520
new cases of lung cancer in the U.S will occur"
• It is also more commonly with the elderly from the age of
45-65 years

5. Symptoms
• Early lung cancer may not cause any symptoms .
• Symptoms depend on the type of cancer you have
but may include :
- Chest pain
- coughing
- coughing up blood
- losing weight
- loss of appetite
- shortness of breath
- wheezing

7. What is a treatment for Lung
Cancer ?
• Treatment for Lung Cancer
can involve surgical
removal of the cancer
chemotherapy or radiation
therapy of these
treatments .

8. What is the treatment for lung cancer ?
Treatment for Lung Cancer
can involve surgical removal
of the lung, or is someone
has the same blood type
there can give you there
lungs when they die.

9. How can Lung Cancer be prevented ?
• Lung cancer can be
prevented by not smoking,
or doing drugs, also by
not breathing the air of the
people the poeple that are
smoking.
• About 226,160 poeple are
found with the case of
having lung cancer with
bot small and non small
cells
•

10. Why smokers get a Lung Cancer ?
• Smokers get lung cancer because smoking is the most
potent caused by lung cancer.
• Some smokers pervent getting lung cancer.

11. Lung Cancer Picture .

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