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Does gas from cars cause lung cancer?
Carbon monoxide
Can xenon cause cancer?
Xenon may cause lung cancer, according to some sources. However, the radioactive isotope Xe-133 is used in radiotherapy for cancer tumors. The element xenon is a non-metal that is a noble gas, and it has the atomic number of 54.
Is radon an odorless radioactive gas that can cause lung cancer?
yes certainly
Which type of indoor pollution is an odorless radioactive gas that can cause lung cancer?
Radon
How do you get lung cancer?
Lung cancer occurs when something stimulates cells in the lung or lungs to begin to multiply uncontrollably. The most common cause of lung cancer is smoking, although there are other causes, usually involving inhalation of foreign particles.What causes lung cancer? The biggest cause of lung cancer is smoking, approximately 36,000 people in the U.K. die from lung cancer every year, 90% of those lung cancer deaths are from smoking. If you are a non-smoker there is a risk that you can get lung cancer from passive smoking, though the risk is not as high than if you smoke yourself. Passive smoking could be responsible for several hundred, lung cancer cases every year. Another possible cause of lung cancer is exposure to certain chemicals and substances such as asbestos, radon gas and nickel, but this is very rare. Air pollution has also been suspected as a cause of lung cancer, but this has not been proved.
Cause of cancer?
smoking can cause lung cancer or being around it About another sixty factors have been linked to lung cancer, including milk, antibiotics, colour TVs, gas cookers and fires, wood burning stoves, alcohol, traffic fumes....
What can Radon do to the Human body?
Radon presence in indoor air is liked to 10% of lung cancer cases in North America.
Lung cancer affects which two body systems?
Lung cancer will effect the blood gas-exchange system, as damaged lung tissue, may cause difficulty in the exchange of gas from the air into the blood stream, and may cause cyanosis, deeper breathing, and even asphyxia (death, which is caused by insufficient amount of oxygen into the brain cells).
Which noble gas is used for cancer treatment?
argon is the gas used in treatement of cancer
Causes of lung cancer?
smoking can cause lung cancer or being around it About another sixty factors have been linked to lung cancer, including milk, antibiotics, colour TVs, gas cookers and fires, wood burning stoves, alcohol, traffic fumes....
What happens when you inhale iodine gas?
You'll get lung sickness such as lung cancer.
Which noble gas is used to treat cancer?
radon
