LUNG+CANCER

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 * DEATH BY LUNC CANCER!**


 * Causes**: Smoking, Radon Gas, and Viruses. Smoking is responsible for a grand total of 87% of lung cancer. 90% in men and 85% in women. YIKES! Cigaretts alone contain 60 different things that have been known to cause cancer. In recent studies it has been shown that second-hand smoke can be more dangerous than direct inhaling of smoke its self. Radon Gas is produced by a decay of uranium which is found near the earth's crust. Basically the earth its self can and will give you cancer if you are not careful. If you are exposed to this for long periods of time then it can cause you to develope lung cancer as well. Viruses are known to cause lung cancer more in animals than in humans, but it can still happen. It can break down the cell cycle in the lungs and cause cell division leading to lung cancer.


 * Symptoms And Signs**: loss of breath, caughing up blood, change in your pattern of coughing, weight loss, loss of voice, having trouble swallowing. If it grows in your neck, that can affect your breathing and lead to it even becoming painful. Every time somone smokes, it kills sacks in your lungs that never grow back. This is extremly hard on your health and as a result smoking is very dangerous for you.


 * Prevention**: Don't Smoke! This is the one way to for sure avoid increasing your chances to get it. Also stay away from people who are smoking, because they are not only harming their health but yours as well. Be careful breathing in fumes and gasses from cars, because those to can give you lung cancer. Exhaust fumes are very toxic and as a result very hard on your lungs. Basically if you smoke then you will get this so don't.


 * Treatment**: Surgury is very dangerous and has a death rate of 4.4%. Most of the time doctors will recomend doing chemotherapy, simply because they don't want you to die. Doctors will litterially go in and cut out the cancer from your lungs. The risk in this is that some might be left behind and it will further divide and become stronger than before. Anytime you have to have a lung opporation it is very serious and you could die. Chemotharapy is given mostly to patients with non-small cell lung cancer. It is also the use of a chemical substance that is used in treating cancer. Most people use this for other types of cancer as well, so it is widley considered the most common way to deal with any types of cancer. These processes are very painful, and can only slow down the cancer to a certin extent before they kill you.


 * Spencer's Break Down Of The Steps To Lung Cancer**

-You Smoke -You Get Addicted -You Keep Smoking (Not Because You Want To, But Because You Have To) -You Try Quitting, But You Can't -You Are NOtified That You Have Lung Cancer -You Get Chemo, And You Loose All Your Hair, And It It Hurts -You Die ( Not Quickly But Slowly You Wither Away To Nothing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_Cancer#Treatment
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