Malignant Lung Cancer. This often includes tumors about the size of a golf ball. It s also the leading cause of cancer related deaths for both american men and women.
Squamous cell carcinomas were formerly more common than adenocarcinomas. Your lungs are two spongy organs in your chest that take in oxygen when you inhale and release carbon dioxide when you exhale. The lung is a bad place for a cancer to arise because it contains a very rich network of both blood vessels and lymphatic channels through which cancer cells can spread.
This means that they invade and destroy the healthy tissues around them and can spread throughout the body.
One in every four cancer related deaths. Surgery with this limited extent of disease can result in 80 90 cure rates. If you have a larger lung cancer your doctor may recommend chemotherapy or radiation therapy before surgery in order to shrink the cancer. This growth can spread beyond the lung by the process of metastasis into nearby tissue or other parts of the body.
