Examples of lung cancer in the following topics:
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- Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung.
- Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung.
- The incidence of lung cancer in the United States.
- Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary lung cancers, are carcinomas that derive from epithelial cells.
- The main types of lung cancer are small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC), also called oat cell cancer, and non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC).
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- Figure 1 shows the correlation between smoking and lung cancer.
- The risk of dying from lung cancer before age 85 is 22.1% for a male smoker and 11.9% for a female current smoker in the absence of competing causes of death.
- Among the diseases that can be caused by smoking are vascular stenosis, lung cancer, heart attacks, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (including emphysema and chronic bronchitis), and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer).
- The primary risks of tobacco usage include many forms of cancer, particularly lung cancer, kidney cancer, cancer of the larynx and head and neck, breast cancer, bladder cancer, cancer of the esophagus, cancer of the pancreas, and stomach cancer.
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- Due to the wide variety of cancerous diseases, six hallmarks are used to group and define cancers:
- For example, patients with lung cancer often present with symptoms including breathlessness and chronic cough, but can vary widely between patients.
- This group includes many of the most common cancers, particularly in the aged, and include nearly all those developing in the breast, prostate, lung, pancreas, and colon.
- For certain types of cancer, such as early head and neck cancer, it may be used alone.
- A tumor present in the lung is marked via the black box.
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- Changes in the post-transcriptional control of a gene can result in cancer.
- Several studies have demonstrated a change in the miRNA population in specific cancer types.
- It appears that the subset of miRNAs expressed in breast cancer cells is quite different from the subset expressed in lung cancer cells or even from normal breast cells.
- It would, therefore, be conceivable that new drugs that turn off miRNA expression in cancer could be an effective method to treat cancer.
- Specific types of miRNAs are only found in cancer cells.
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- Cancer immunology examines the interaction between cancer cells and the immune system.
- Cancer immunology is the study of interactions between the immune system and cancer cells (also called tumors or malignancies).
- The study of these viruses and their role in the development of various cancers is still continuing; however, a vaccine has been developed that can prevent infection of certain HPV strains, and thus prevent those HPV strains from causing cervical cancer, and possibly other cancers as well.
- Cancer immunotherapy attempts to stimulate the immune system to reject and destroy tumors.
- Lung cancer has been demonstrated to potentially respond to immunotherapy.
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- Cervical cancer is a cancer that originates in the cervix of a female.
- Very rarely, cancer can arise in other types of cells in the cervix.
- The early stages of cervical cancer may be completely asymptomatic.
- In advanced disease, metastases may be present in the abdomen, lungs or elsewhere.
- While the pap smear is an effective screening test, confirmation of the diagnosis of cervical cancer or pre-cancer requires a biopsy of the cervix.
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- Testicular cancer is cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system.
- Testicular cancer has one of the highest cure rates of all cancers: in excess of 90%; essentially 100% if it has not spread (metastasized).
- Although testicular cancer can be derived from any cell type found in the testicles, more than 95% of testicular cancers are germ cell tumors .
- It is not very common for testicular cancer to spread to other organs, apart from the lungs.
- shortness of breath (dyspnea), cough or coughing up blood (hemoptysis) from metastatic spread to the lungs
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- Colorectal cancer, commonly known as bowel cancer, is a cancer from uncontrolled malignant cell growth in the colon, rectum, or appendix.
- Colorectal cancer, commonly known as bowel cancer, is a cancer from uncontrolled malignant cell growth in the colon, rectum, or appendix .
- More than 80% colorectal cancers arise from adenomatous polyps making this cancer amenable to screening .
- If there are only a few metastases in the liver or lungs they may also be removed.
- The two most common sites of recurrence if it occurs are in the liver and lungs.
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- Worldwide, it comprises 22.9% of all cancers (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers) in women.
- In 2008, breast cancer caused 458,503 deaths worldwide, and 13.7% of all cancer deaths in women.
- The earliest breast cancers are detected by a mammogram.
- Occasionally, breast cancer presents as metastatic disease, that is, cancer that has spread beyond the original organ.
- Common sites include bone, liver, lung and brain.
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- Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related deaths across the globe, and has one of the highest fatality rates of all cancers.
- Symptoms of pancreatic cancer metastasis.
- Typically, it first metastasizes to regional lymph nodes, and later to the liver, and less commonly, to the lungs; it occasionally metastasizes to bone and brain.
- This depends on the stage of the cancer.
- These micrographs show the progression of changes in the pancreas due to cancer, from normal pancreas, to pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (precursors to pancreatic cancer), and finally pancreatic cancer.