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Health Encyclopedia: Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is cancer that begins in the lungs, the two organs found in the chest that help you breathe.
The lungs are made up of areas called lobes. The right lung has three lobes; the left lung has two, so there's room for the heart. When you breathe, air goes through your nose, down your windpipe (trachea), and into the lungs where it spreads through tubes called bronchi. Most lung cancer begins in the cells that line these tubes.
There are two main types of lung cancer...
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Expert & Community Posts
Paul Newman Dies of Lung Cancer
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The Comeback Kid and Beating Cancer
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Meet Adam Frey: How I got here, part I
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Sniff out skin cancer
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Health Guide
Lung cancer
...depends on the following: Type of lung cancer Whether or not the cancer has spread Your age Your overall health How well you respond to treatment The earlier the cancer... Read more »Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Risk Factors
...cigarettes smoked per day, multiplied by the number of years that the person has smoked). Genetic damage in the lung occurs in nearly all chronic smokers, even if cancer has not developed.An... Read more »Vitamins: Healthy Foods
...protective (may improve lipids and help prevent blood clotting. May have protective properties against lung cancer (not other cancers).EggsLuteinMany B vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin DAlthough egg... Read more »Spontaneous pneumothorax
...pneumothorax occurs in people withoutlung disease. It usually occurs in tall, thin men between the ages of 20 and 40. Usually, the rupture of a small air- or fluid-filled... Read more »Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Risk Factors
...leukemia would be diagnosed in the U.S., with about 2,630 of them in children and adolescents younger than age 20. Until recently, most studies listed it as the most common childhood cancer. (Some... Read more »
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