Lung Cancer Chemotherapy

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Being diagnosed with cancer, any cancer, is the last thing anyone wants. Lung cancer is a fairly common form of cancer and not just for smokers. In this article, we take a look at the basics of lung cancer. Lung cancer is the result of the mutation of DNA. DNA is the code in our cells that determines our physical characteristics. When our cells split, they take an exact copy of our DNA each time. Sometimes, however, this split does not go smoothly and the DNA is compromised. This is known as a mutation. Medical research has discovered it takes multiple mutations to create lung cancer cells. Lung cancer comes with many variations, but is always classified as primary or secondary cancer. What does this mean? Well, primary lung cancer is fairly easy to understand. It simply means that the cancerous cells were created in the lungs and have metastasized there. Secondary lung cancer is often called "unlucky" cancer because the problem did not start in the lungs, but has worked its way to the lungs from some other part of the body where cancer exists. Indeed, one of the biggest issues with cancer sometimes is simply trying to find ...