| Lung cancer is the most common of all the cancers. | | | | cell lung cancer (SCLC). NSLC makes the most of the |
| It occurs as a result of improper sudden and fast | | | | lung cancer. |
| growth in the tissue cells of the lungs. Then it leads | | | | NSCLC is of different types; Epidermoid carcinoma, |
| to metastasis, the stage in which the cancer cells | | | | which is most common of all. This cancer develops |
| starts to enter the other parts outside the lungs and | | | | from the bronchial tubes. Adenocarcinoma in which |
| try to damage them. | | | | glands that produces mucus is the place where the |
| The common symptoms that indicate the this type | | | | cancer cells originate. This occurs to most of the |
| of cancers are; shortness of breath, coughing, | | | | people who don't smoke and especially women. |
| bleeding while coughing and weight loss. | | | | Another type is Bronchioalveolar carcinoma, this is |
| The major causes are; a very long period of smoking | | | | rarest of all, and the cancer cells start to develop |
| habit, may be due to genetic factors, radon gas, and | | | | from the air sacs near the lungs. Large cell |
| air pollution. | | | | undifferentiated carcinoma, is another type of cancer, |
| It can be detected by the following methods, chest | | | | in which the cancer cells form near the outer lung |
| radiography, computed tomography (CT). The lung | | | | surface, they have a tendency to grow rapidly. |
| cancer thus diagnosed is confirmed with a biopsy. | | | | SCLC is often caused by the prime factor, continuous |
| Biopsy is nothing but a medical test based on | | | | smoking for a long time. |
| removing cells from a living tissue and examining it. | | | | Some alternative treatments are found to be: |
| There are two types of lung cancers in common; | | | | acupuncture, massage therapy, herbal products, |
| they are Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small | | | | Nutritional supplements, vitamins and special diet. |