Lung Cancer 3

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coating that causes normal healthy cells to stay together because cancerous cells lack it they can break off and implant somewhere else in the body. The cancerous cells that break off from the primary tumour are usually carried through the blood. What causes cancer cells to be abnormal? They create extra chromosomes and more DNA then normal cells do.

Lung Cancer

What usually happens with lung cancer is that the cilia in your throat that usually help keep chemicals and other harmful particles out are destroyed sometimes by smoking or if you work around certain chemicals. What happens is that harmful chemicals get into your lungs and stays their. Over time they can alter the nature of the cells. Once these chemicals or particals are in your lungs your only cleansing mechanism is coughing, which is why smokers tend to cough more and why when very severe it is often one of the signs that Doctors look for when diagnosing a patient. Often when the cilia are dead the mucus in your ...

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radiation, chemotherapy or surgery. Surgery is used if the cancer has not spread beyond one lung. Radiation is often used in combination with surgery and Chemotherapy is used most commonly with small cell cancer and usually in the most serious cases.

Non-small Cell

Non-small cell also has three types: squamous cell, large cell and adenocarcinoma. Squamous cell is microscopic and is related to smoking. Usually it is taken care of with surgery. Large cell tends to spread very rapidly. Adenocarcinoma is usually found in non-smoking women along the edge of the lung. Generally speaking non-small cell cancer is not related to smoking.
Non-small cell spreads through the blood very ...

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