Journal of Medical Physics and Applied Sciences

Prevention of Lung Cancer

Cancer is when cells in the body variation and produce out of control. Your body is made up of small building blocks called cells. Regular cells grow when your body needs them and die when your body does not need them any longer. Lung cancer is cancer that frights in the cells that make up the lungs. Several types of cancer, such as breast or kidney, can spread to the lungs. The cancer is not called lung cancer. This is because cancer is named for and treatment is created on the site of the original tumour. Example, if breast cancer spreads to the lungs, it will be treated as metastatic breast cancer, not lung cancer.

Author(s):

P C Yang and L B Marks

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