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Lung Cancer

Lung Cancer. By: Tommy, Aundres, and Owen. What is lung Cancer?. Lung cancer is a disease that is characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in the tissue of peoples lungs. Most of the time it’s carcinomas that take the epithelial cells.

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Lung Cancer

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  1. Lung Cancer By: Tommy, Aundres, and Owen

  2. What is lung Cancer? • Lung cancer is a disease that is characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in the tissue of peoples lungs. • Most of the time it’s carcinomas that take the epithelial cells. • It is mainly caused by smoking tobacco, or the environment.

  3. Characteristics • It’s the most common form of cancer for adult men and woman with 1.3 million deaths annualy • It’s mainly lifestyle but can be hereditary

  4. Sings and Symptoms • The most common signs are shortness of breath, coughing up blood, weight loss, or a persistent cough, chest pain, and difficulty of swallowing. • Although 25% of people who are diagnosed with lung cancer didn’t have symptoms.

  5. Wow • It could take only one cigarette or thousands of cigarettes no one knows for sure so stay safe and never smoke

  6. Wow • It cost 25,000-35,000 dollars for chemotherapy

  7. Wow Even if you did smoke and quit your lungs will never go back to normal

  8. Treatment • There are different types of Lung cancer so there are different treatments for all of them. • •First type is non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy are used in this type. • Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) surgery is less used in this type. Chemotherapy is the surgery for this type, also brain radiation to kill off tiny bits of the cancer.

  9. Bibliography • "Lung cancer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Sept. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer>.   • “lung cancer." w"Managing Lung Cancer - US News Health ." Health News Articles - US News Health. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Sept. 2011. <http://health.usnews.com/health-conditions/cancer/lung-cancer/managing>. • ww.answers.yahoo.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Sept. 2002. <www.answers.yahoo.com>.

  10. Now it’s your turn to ask questions

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