Causes and Facts
Smoking
What is the number one cause of lung cancer
Surgery, chemotherapy radiation, targeted therapies and photo dynamic therapy
What are treatments for lung cancer?
Non-small cell (NSCLC)
Small cell (SCLC)
What Are types of Lung Cancer
Smoking at a young age.
What increases your chance of getting lung cancer?
2007
When the legal age of buying tobacco raised from 16-18
It tends to grow quickly, but usually responds well to chemotherapy treatments.
What is small cell lung cancer
Lung cancer deaths in year
What is 1.38 million.
Is a form of therapy that uses high energy radiation to kill cancer cells.
What is Radiation Therapy-
Which one is least is the most common type of lung cancer in British adults
What is Non-small cell lung cancer
85% of lung cancer cases.
What is Smoking causes
Medicine that is either given to you in a form of a pill, delivered to you in your blood stream by a machine that slowly drips blood into your system by a tube and some by injection ( a shot).
What is Chemotherapy
Worsening cough • Constant chest pain • Coughing up blood (haemoptosis) • Shortness of breath • Wheezing & loss of voice (hoarseness) • Repeating pneumonia and bronchitis • Swelling of neck and face • Loss of appetite or weight without trying • Fatigue
What symptoms of Lung Cancer
A disease that is developed if there is uncontrolled cell growth in the tissues of the lungs.
What is Lung Cancer
Pneumonectomy, Lobectomy, Segmentectomy or Wedge resection and Laser Surgery. These are very evasive.
What are examples of surgery to remove a tumour.
German physician Fritz Lickint
Who in 1929 discovered the connection between smoking and lung cancer.