Description : Lung Cancer is uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lung. It is the most common cancer in the world. It also is the leading cause of cancer death to men and women across the United States. Risks/ Causes: Risks of lung cancer can be things such as radon gas or family history, but the most common cause is smoking. Cigarette smoking causes most lung cancers. The more cigarettes you smoke per day and the earlier you started smoking, the greater your risk of lung cancer. High levels of pollution, radiation and asbestos exposure may also increase risk. Symptoms: Lung Cancer has many symptoms such as a cough that doesn't go away and gets worse over time, cough up blood, shortness of breath repeated problems with pneumonia or bronchitis, swelling of the neck and face, loss in appetite or weight loss, and even fatiuge. Treatments: There are limited treatments for this cancer such as surgrey which Surgery to remove all or part of a lung involves making a cut on one side of your chest (thorax) during a procedure called a thoracotomy. Surgery that uses this approach avoids areas in the chest that contain the heart and the spinal cord.After the cut is made between the ribs, all or part of the lung is removed depending on the location, size, and type of lung cancer that is present. Also there is chemotherapy which are drugs to kill the abnormally growing cells called cancer cells. Complications: A tumor can be benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Benign tumors grow in one area and stay there. They don't spread to other places in the body. A malignant tumor, which is another name for cancer, can grow fast and either push healthy tissue out of place or actually take the place of the healthy tissue. Cancer cells in a malignant tumor can also break away from the original mass and spread to other parts of your body. Here, they may grow and divide to form another malignant tumor. Lifestyle Changes: For people with lung cancer, they can’t change the fact that they have it so they have to make some changes. One of the most common they need to do is have a healthier diet by eating fruits and vegetables. They also Make healthier choices like by running in the morning and lifting weights. One of the big things that people even without lung cancer lots of rest. Eveyone needs rest to take on whats ahead of them and to get things done escpically people with that kind of cancerneeds to be able to breath and they need rest to. Shocking Facts: Here are some facts about lung cancer. About 170,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with lung cancer each year.In recent years, cases of lung cancer have been declining among men, but the illness is increasingly common among women.Much of the increase of lung cancer cases in women is attributed to an increase in women who began to smoke in recent decades. Also what I thought was really interesting was there are two major types of lung cancer -- small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer, named for the way the cells appear under a microscope.