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What are the pain areas of Lung Cancer
Your chest and ribs
100
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke leads to what?
What is a doubled risk for lung cancer
100
lung cancer can be treated in what ways.
What is radiation and chemotherapy
100
What is the main way to diagnose lung cancer?
What is a CT scan
100
What happens to the lung cells affected?
What is abnormal cells grow uncontrollably and divided rapidly to form tumors instead of healthy lung tissue
200
What are some of the effects on your body?
What is fatigue, loss of appetite, and weakness
200
What is the main cause of lung cancer?
What is smoking
200
What is radiation?
What is high energy X-rays that destroy cancer cells.
200
What are some other ways lung cancer can be diagnosed?
What is x-rays sputum test and tissue samples
200
What is afinitor, etoposide, and topotecan?
What is drugs that can be taken if diagnosed with lung cancer
300
What are the effects on your respiratory system?
What is frequent respiratory infections, shortness of breath, and wheezing
300
What percent of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking?
What is 90%
300
Targeted therapy targets what?
What is genes, proteins, and tissues
300
How many people die of lung cancer within their first year of diagnosis?
What is 1/2
300
What lifestyle choices can you make to prevent developing lung cancer?
What is exercise and eat fruits and vegetables
400
What are common effects of lung cancer
What is hoarseness, swollen lymph nodes, and weight loss
400
What are other causes of lung cancer?
What is exposure to chemicals and poor diet
400
what is a pneumonectomy?
What is removing your whole lung
400
What can you do to avoid being diagnosed with this form of cancer?
What is don't smoke, avoid second hand smoke and carcinogenes
400
Which race is most likely to develop lung cancer?
What is African Americans
500
What kind of coughs can develope?
What is chronic, dry, with phlegm, or with blood.
500
Men who smoke are how many more times likely to develop lung cancer.
What is 23
500
Surgeries for lung cancer include?
What is lobectomy, wedge resection, segmentectomy, pneumonectomy, radiofrequency ablation.
500
What is the ratio for people being diagnosed with lung cancer?
What is 1 out of 4
500
nearly how many people in the US are living with lung cancer?
What is 400,000