Lung metastases

Not all cancers can be prevented. However, many can be prevented by:

• Eating a healthy diet
• Exercising regularly
• Limiting alcohol consumption
• Not smoking

Rusch VW. Lung metastases. In: Abeloff MD, Armitage JO, Niederhuber JE, Kastan MB, McKenna WG. Abeloff's Clinical Oncology. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier; 2008:chap 58.

Images

Pulmonary nodule - front view chest X-ray

Sarcoid, stage II - chest X-ray

Lung cancer, frontal chest X-ray

Coal workers pneumoconiosis, complicated #2

Lung cancer, lateral chest X-ray

Pulmonary nodule, solitary - CT scan

Coal workers pneumoconiosis, complicated

Respiratory system

Coal workers pneumoconiosis - stage II

Coal workers pneumoconiosis - stage II #2

Lung with squamous cell cancer - CT scan

Review Date: 06/02/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; Yi-Bin Chen, MD, Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

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