Lung Cancer Causes

The reason behind why lung cancer a very common cancer among men and women is lung cancer causes are all around us.

Lung cancer causes includes:

1. Lung causes long-term exposure to inhaled carcinogens, especially tobacco smoke.
   Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer that contributes more than 80% of all lung cancer cases. Smoking also the main reason why lung cancer also common in women, and now it even more common than breast cancer. Nowadays trends in smoking among teenagers have increased lung cancer case.
   
   In few decades, smoking trends has increased not only men but also women. That is why lung cancer cases increase each year, even worse, kids also smoking, making lung cancer patient getting younger and younger.
   
   

Lung Cancer Symptoms

Lung Cancer has many symptoms, yet all of them are associated with other illness that has no connection with lung cancer. The bad news is when the symptoms show and worsen, its mean that lung cancer already in advance stage. When lung cancer is in early stage, it’s not shows any symptoms or only shows small symptoms that most people will think it’s just small illness or even ignore it.

What are lung cancer symptoms?

Symptoms that may leads to lung cancer are:

1. Coughing is the most common of lung cancer symptoms that experienced by 75% of patients.
2. Shortness of breath
3. Chest pain or pain in the abdomen
4. Weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite
5. Hoarseness
6. Difficulty swallowing
7. Coughing up blood
8. Wheezing

Lung Cancer Types

Lung cancer divides into two major types’ non-small cell and small cell lung cancer. This dividing is very important to get the prognosis of lung cancer.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

From all lung cancer cases about 75% of them are non-small lung cancer. There are three subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and large cell lung cancer.

Adenocarcinoma is the most common of non-small cell lung cancer and counting 40% of all. Adenocarcinoma was previously known as the most common type of lung cancer in women and non-smokers, however, the incidence of adenocarcinoma has increased in the last two decades and it is now the most common histological subtype in both males and females. The reason for the increasing incidence of adenocarcinoma is not well understood, but may be related to changing patterns of smoking. Adenocarcinomas tend to be peripherally located, smaller and vary histological from well-differentiated tumours to solid masses with occasional mucin-producing glands and cells.

Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the major problem in the world, anyone can get lung cancer. Breast cancer may make women thrilling, yet prostate cancer may scare men, even though lung cancer patient not as much as other, but it has caused death more than any cancer.

For years, lung cancer patient keep increasing. For few decades before, majority of lung cancer patient are men, but nowadays lung cancer has increased among women even more than in men. Its all due to past few decades women start smoking and many various habit just like men do.