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Cause Of Lung Cancer Research Paper

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The most common cause of lung cancer is smoking cigarettes. 80% of people who have lung cancer got it from smoking. The longer you smoke cigarettes the better chance of getting lung cancer. Smoking at a young age increases the chance of getting lung cancer more then starting to smoke as an adult. The sooner you quit, the better your life will be. Passive smoking (secondhand smoking) can give you lung cancer if exposed for a long time to it.
Another way of getting cancer is from air pollution. The risk of getting lung cancer is present if you live in a big city like New …show more content…

Make sure you cover the information found in the rubric. The first treatment option is surgery. There are many different ways of getting the surgery. The first way is called Lobectomy. What they would do is cut 1 of the 5 lobes to get rid of the tumor. The 2nd option is called a wedge resection. They do this if you can't have one of your lobes removed. They just remove the tumor and not a whole lobe. The 3rd option is segmentectomy. This is another option if you can't have a lobe be removed. The fourth and last surgery option is called Pneumonectomy. If the tumor is in the middle of the lung, you can get the whole lung removed. Adjuvant therapy is a treatment given to patients to lower the risk of the cancer returning. This may include radiation treatment, chemotherapy, targeted therapy or immunotherapy. These treatments lower the risk of cancer recurring, but there is always some risk the cancer will come …show more content…

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Our dream treatment is to 3d print lungs. We think that it's the best solution because it will become cheaper to get the lungs. This treatment is the best because radiation gives you painful scars. We will be able to make a lot of lungs when we 3d print them and your insurance will cover it.
We could use some of the patents stem cells to create the lung. The stem cells can be used as building blocks and can be turned into the cells in the lung. Some strengths are that the side effects wouldn't be like chemo and radiation treatment. Another strength is that you're getting a brand new lung and not damaging your lungs to cure the cancer. A weakness is that not a lot of people will be able to get the 3d printed organ because the printer wont be in every hospital. Another weakness is that your body may reject the new lung.
We think that 3d printing lungs is realistic because we can 3d print other organs. If you can process of 3d printing lungs so that everyone has the chance to get a new lung will really help defeat lung

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