Lung Cancer

I was diagnosed with extensive Small Cell Lung Cancer five months ago so this question has a lot of importance to me. I've asked this same question of every doctor that I've met with over the last five months (and there have been quite a few), here is what I've been told. Lung cancer likes to spread to other parts of the body, particuarily the liver, brain and spine. Depending upon where the cancer spreads to and how fast it grows will determine what specifically kills me. I can expect to live another three to four months if my survial rate is "average" for SCLC (non small cell lung cancer patients last longer). I should expect to lose my appetite, lose a lot of weight, and again, depending upon where the cancer spreads to, experience quite a bit of pain that will require IV medications for relief. A lot depends upon a patients age and general health. I'm only 58 years old and my health is good, I've had minimal side effects from chemotherapy and radiation therapy, this probably means that I'll last a bit longer than someone who is older and has other health issues, but it also means that it gives the cancer more time to spread to other parts of my body. From what I've been told, death by lung cancer can come pretty quickly for some, they are fine one week, sick the next week and dead the following week. Other's last much longer while under hospice care. The bottom line seems to be that the doctors can't tell me how I will die, everyone is different, so much just depends upon where in your body the cancer spreads to and how large the tumors become in that part of the body. I know this doesn't answer your question, but I believe it's the truth.

Yes they can. They can get it from smoking or other harmful, pretty much for the same reasons as adults.

Any damage caused to the lungs by smoking takes around forty years at least to develop into lung cancer (if it actually does, which is a very small chance). So unless you were on forty a day in a previous life.........................

A nodule on the lung are small masses, and usually are nothing to worry about and are benign. the doctor will keep an eye on them. If they change in size or shape, the doctor will run further tests to make sure its not cancer.

you can schedule an appointement at the doctors office for a check up to see if you have gotten cancer if not you can ask your doctor to give you advice on how to prevent yourself from getting it, and if you find out that you have cancer you need to go through a procedure to remove the cancerous tumor so it doe not spread throughout the rest of your body.

Mortality rates (the number of people who die per number of cases) is decreasing, folowing advances in medicine and the rapid decline of cigarette smoking.

how long are you expected to live once lung cancer has spread to the liver

Most of the symptoms of lung cancer can be caused by any number of other illnesses, which is one reason why lung cancer is often not detected until it is in a later stage. For example, the classic chronic cough or wheezing can also be caused by asthma, bronchitis, or even food allergies.

The respiritory system would be impaired (depending on the stage of the cancer).

As the word "lung" & "respiritory" suggests, the person may have trouble breathing, and may be short of breath.

Your doctor will discuss with you the course of action to take after diagnosing the type of cancer you have, the stage of progression, and other factors. These days, cyberknife treatment, an advanced technology which delivers concentrated beams of focused radiation on cancer cells, is one of the best options to kill cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. The treatment itself does not require an incision, there is no blood loss, and it does not require you to go under anesthesia. Recovery time is quick and each treatment is 1 to 2 hours. Most are able to resume regular activities after the treatment. This kind of treatment was once limited to cancers which were inaccessible/un-operable, but these days it is used on cancers of the prostate, pancreas, lung, breast, liver, brain and spine.

1 in 13 men get it and 1 in 16 women get it................................

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Their is still a great debate as to whether marijuana causes lung cancer as tobacco does. I couldn't find a percentage. However, their is som new research that suggests THC(the active ingredient in marijuana) may help fight lung cancer.

You die.

The median age for a diagnosis of lung cancer is 72, according to the most recent statistics collected between 2004 and 2008. From 1975 to 1999 the median age for a diagnosis of lung cancer was 66.

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Small cell lung cancer is a disease in which the cells of the lung tissues grow uncontrollably and form tumors.

From www.rare-cancer.org: Hippocrates is credited with being the first to recognize the difference between benign and malignant tumors. His writings describe cancers of many body sites. The swollen blood vessels around the malignant tumors so reminded him of crab claws, he called the disease karkinos (the Greek name for crab). In English this term translates to carcinos or carcinoma.

X-rays aren't in "color". They can be false colored according to any scheme desired. A tumor in the lungs, since it's more dense than the lung tissue, would be a darker gray than the rest of the lung.

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No. If you got lung cancer after having only one drag off a cigarrette, you were predisposed to it, or got it from something else. Smokers need to work at it to get lung cancer. Unfortunately, over a fourth of them succeed.

An abscess is essentially an infection that results in a hole forming in the tissue. The risk factors for getting a lung abscess include having lung cancer, severe pneumonia, or accidentally breathing in something poisonous or harmful.