What is Lung Cancer
 Nothing sexy anymore Lung Cancer claims the lives of at least 150,000 people in the United States each year
Lung Cancer, though largely preventable, claims the lives of at least 150,000 people in the United States each year. While approximately 87 percent of victims develop lung cancer from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, the remainder of victims-an alarming 19,500 people-develop and die from lung cancer not from tobacco but rather from exposure to dangerous substances, such as asbestos, silica dust, radon, and environmental pollutants.
These lung cancer figures, however, don't even account for victims whose cause of lung cancer may have been misidentified: experts believe that thousands of people who were told their lung cancer was caused by smoking in fact developed the disease because of exposure to a toxic substance.
Nor do these lung cancer figures take into consideration people who both smoked and were exposed to the disease. According to the Mesothelioma Information and Research Group, studies have shown that smoking increases one's risk of asbestos-related lung cancer by a factor of 10, while asbestos exposure alone increases the risk of lung cancer by a factor of five. But when a smoker is exposed to asbestos, he increases his or her lung cancer risk factor by about 50 times! Thus, if you have developed lung cancer, smoking alone-or at all-might not be to blame.
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