Lung cancer is often times a terminal disease that’s generally a byproduct of smoking. Being diagnosed with lung cancer can be devastating to anyone. This includes the pain and fear of the sick person as well as their friends and family.
It affects the small cells of the lungs and surrounding regions, which include the lymph [...]
The early symptoms of lung cancer resemble the symptoms of other common illnesses. As such, it can be difficult to diagnose lung cancer until it is too late. Also confounding the problem, at least 25 percent of the people that are diagnosed with lung cancer have no symptoms at all.
Therefore, when you get a physical [...]
Lung cancer is generally divided into two main categories; small cell and non small cell. The small cell lung cancer is further divided into several additional subcategories. The vast majority (approximately 80 percent) of people diagnosed have non small cell lung cancer.
Symptoms of non small cell lung cancer include breathlessness, chest pain, coughing up blood, [...]
When you breathe in, air passes from your nose or mouth through the windpipe (trachea), which divides into two tubes (airways), one going to each lung. These are known as the right and left bronchus and they divide to form smaller tubes called bronchioles, which carry air through the lungs. At the end of the [...]
