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Lung cancer is one of the most dangerous cancers out there. It surpasses breast cancer when it comes to deaths in women. In America, there are close to two hundred thousand men and women diagnosed yearly with lung cancer. Although it is well known among people, there is really no cure for the cancer. Doctors know most of the causes, but when it comes to really curing a person, it’s not very likely. The cancer destroys a person and ultimately succeeds in the annihilation of the body.

According to Doctors, eighty percent of lung cancers are caused by smoking. Cigarettes will kill you and they are the leading benefactor to developing lung cancer. The number of years that you smoke will depend on the chances of you developing one of four different types of lung cancers. However, some people are lucky and can smoke for their entire lives and never develop the killer. Unfortunately, others are not quite as lucky and develop it, grow sick with it, and die with it. The different types of cancers are:

Small cell lung cancer: Small cell lung cancers tend to grow much faster. There are two levels of small cell lung cancer. The first is the limited stage, which means that the cancer has stayed in the lungs. The second is the extensive stage, which means that the cancer has spread throughout the body. Although small cell lung cancers grow fast, they respond the best against chemotherapy, the killer of cancers.

Squamous cell carcinoma: This cancer is a cancer of the surface layers of the lungs or the bronchi. The bronchi are the tubes that move into the lungs and allow for you to breathe in and breathe out, inhale and exhale. There are big scientific names for the different levels of the bronchi, but what needs to be understood is that this form of lung cancer attacks those parts of the lung.

Large cell carcinoma: This cancer is strongly associated with those people that were smokers or are smokers. They are large celled; therefore the tumors that appear are much larger than small cell lung cancer. This cancer, like the previous one, is found mostly in the bronchi. The primary method of treating large cell carcinoma is to get surgery to remove the tumor. However if that does not work, chemotherapy will be necessary.

Adenocarcinoma: This form of cancer is the most common form of cancer found in smokers and non-smokers alike. Not everyone that gets lung cancer is a smoker. It could be chemicals in the air that cause it or anything else at that matter. Surgery, like the previous type of lung cancer, is the primary method of treatment. However if that does not work, chemotherapy can be used as well as radiation.

Chemotherapy seems to be a big tool for fighting against cancer. Lung cancer is a cancer that will spread from the lungs to other parts of the body. If that occurs, your chances of survival will continue to decrease the longer your body has it. If you can catch the cancer before it spreads and is still just a tumor, your chances are greater. However it is very rare for someone to survive lung cancer. One of twenty people survives lung cancer past five years and one in five die within their first year of diagnosis. Lung cancer is a killer and there is no real way to prevent it other than to not smoke, stay away from smokers and to be careful around chemical factories and whatever else produces chemicals. Go for regular checkups with your doctor and if you have cancer, do not stress about it. It’s been psychologically proven that those that stress about a terminal illness tend to live shorter lives than those that do not stress about it. Every day you are alive is a day spent fighting the cancer.