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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking cigarettes is number one on the lists of risk factors for lung cancer. Reportedly, in the United States, cigarette-smoking links to about 80 to 90 percent of lung cancers, however, other tobacco products such as cigars or pipes also increase the risk for lung […]
Lung cancer kills approximately 1.5 million people each year. While it is a serious and potentially lethal form of cancer, the disease itself is not a definite death sentence. Those individuals who receive an early diagnosis stand a 50 percent greater chance of survival than those who go undiagnosed and untreated while their cancer metastasizes […]
Lung cancer is now topping breast cancer in women as the leading cause of cancer in highly developed countries. Women did not begin smoking as heavily as men until the 1980’s. Men began smoking in the 1950’s. Deaths due to lung cancer in women are just now catching up with the men as the leading […]