Lung Cancer Disease

Lung cancer is one of killer disease among both men and women. It claims more lives each year than colon, prostate, lymph and breast cancers combined. Like other cancers, The lung cancer is results from an abnormality in the body's basic unit of life, the cell. In the lung cancers cases, the uncontrolled cells reproduce rapidly grow into normal lung tissue because of malignant transformation and expansion of lung tissue.

Estimated new cases and deaths from lung cancer {Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)} in the United States in 2008 (Info: NCI): New cases: 215,020 and Deaths: 161,840.