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    Lung cancer is primarily caused by smoking (90%) and pollution, and there are two main types: small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which accounts for 85% of cases. NSCLC includes adenocarcinoma (most common, 40% of nonsmokers), squamous cell carcinoma (25-30%), and large cell carcinoma (15%). Symptoms include coughing blood, wheezing, fever, weakness, and loss of appetite. Complications involve tumor pressure on veins, hormone secretion, infection in the pleural space, bone metastases, and liver or lymph node metastases.

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    Lung cancer is primarily caused by smoking (90%) and pollution, and there are two main types: small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which accounts for 85% of cases. NSCLC includes adenocarcinoma (most common, 40% of nonsmokers), squamous cell carcinoma (25-30%), and large cell carcinoma (15%). Symptoms include coughing blood, wheezing, fever, weakness, and loss of appetite. Complications involve tumor pressure on veins, hormone secretion, infection in the pleural space, bone metastases, and liver or lymph node metastases.

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    Pulmonary Cancer

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    Lung cancer is primarily caused by smoking (90%) and pollution, and there are two main types: small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which accounts for 85% of cases. NSCLC includes adenocarcinoma (most common, 40% of nonsmokers), squamous cell carcinoma (25-30%), and large cell carcinoma (15%). Symptoms include coughing blood, wheezing, fever, weakness, and loss of appetite. Complications involve tumor pressure on veins, hormone secretion, infection in the pleural space, bone metastases, and liver or lymph node metastases.

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    LUNG CANCER

    ETIOLOGY & RISK TYPES


    Smoking (90%) small-cell lung cancer
    pollution (SCLC)
    non-small-cell lung cancer
    DIAGNOSIS (NSCLC) 85%
    1. AdenoCarcinoma - most
    chest X-rays
    common and prevails also in
    Biopsy
    nonsmokers (40%)
    2. Squamous cell carcinoma
    (25-30%)
    3. Large cell carcinoma (15%)

    SYMPTOMS COMPLICATIONS
    Haemoptysis - cough with Tumor pressure on superior
    blood vena cava
    wheezing and dysphonia Endocrine disorder - secretion
    recurrent fever and inflamation of hormones (ADH)
    Exhaustion, weakness, lack of empyema - pus-filled pockets
    appetite, dysphagia, nausea that develop in the pleural
    and vomiting space
    hypercalcemia when metastases are common in
    metastases to bones Liver, Bones, Lymph

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