Detecting Lung Cancer Blog

A lung cancer diagnosis brings with it at least two more important pieces of information: the type of lung cancer and the different lung cancer stages.

As with most cancers, asbestos-related lung cancers typically have a better prognosis when they are detected in an earlier stage. Patients have a wider range of treatment options, and the tumors typically respond more positively to the therapies. Unfortunately, most patients are diagnosed later in their cancer’s progression and receive a prognosis of less than a year.

Generally, women smoke and inhale tobacco smoke less often than men—so, logically, they should get lung cancer less frequently than men, right?

Smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. In fact, smokers and ex-smokers can be as much as 45 times more likely to develop lung cancer in the next 5 years than someone their age who has never smoked.