LUNG CANCER

WHAT ARE THE MAIN CAUSES OF LUNG CANCER

• Smoking tobacco
• Eposure to radon
• Secondhand smoking
• There is a total of 1.8 million causes

HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT KILL

• It is the leading cause of deaths by cancer
• In 1987 it passed breast cancer in the cancer deaths of women
• Lung cancer kills more people than the three most common cancers
• This year about 27% cancer deaths are from lung cancer
• The percent has risen 3.5% between 1999 and 2012

HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE DIAGNOSED

• Over 402,000 people this year
• 224,210 were expected
• 82% of them are 60 or older
• Kentucky has the most people diagnosed
• Utah has the lowest

WHAT ARE SOME SYMPTOMS OF IT

• A cough that doesn't go away and gets worse over time
• Constant chest pain
• Coughing up blood
• Shortness of breath, or wheezing
• Loss weight and loss of appetite