Cause Of Lung Cancer. Cigarette smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in the body. Cigarette smoking causes cancer of the mouth and throat esophagus stomach colon rectum liver pancreas voicebox larynx trachea bronchus kidney and renal pelvis urinary bladder and cervix and causes acute.
We don t know what causes each case of lung cancer. Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the united states. Smoking is far and away the leading cause of lung cancer even for nonsmokers who get it from secondhand smoke.
Lung cancer caused by asbestos is responsible for an estimated 6 000 deaths in the u s.
The smallest particles known as pm10 and pm2 5 are linked to lung cancers caused by pollution. Most people diagnosed with lung cancer are 65 or older. A very small number of people diagnosed are younger than 45. In 2013 the international agency for research on cancer iarc confirmed that outdoor air pollution is a cause of cancer.
