Listed below you’ll find some very interesting facts about lung cancer:
- The primary cause of lung cancer is smoking. 87% of the people that are diagnosed with lung cancer are either smokers or have previously been smokers.
- Approximately 219,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer in the U.S. every year out of which around 103,000 are women and 116,000 are men. Out of these people, more than 160,000 find it to be fatal.
- Lung cancer can be caused, apart from smoking, by exposure to radon, radiation, second hand smoke, asbestos, arsenic, etc.
- Only 16% of the patients are diagnosed before the disease has time to spread to the other parts of the body.
- The race which experiences the highest incidence of lung cancer and the highest death rate are the African Americans.
- Around 84% of the people that are diagnosed with lung cancer die and within five years of getting diagnosed with it.
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