• Question: How many ways are there in which Lung Cancer is possible?

    Asked by bullions2000 to Keith on 26 Jun 2013.
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      Keith Siew answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      Well there are lots of causes of mutations… like toxins… from smoking, poisons, radiation, viruses, etc… You can also be predisposed to cancer due to genes passed on to you from your parents…

      So there are lots of potential causes… countless in fact… and there are lots of different cell types that make up the lungs and lots of these can become cancerous… so its not possible to give you an exact number… but suffice to say it is A LOT!!!

      So when we say lung cancer you’d be right in thinking of it as a group of cancers!

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