Posts Tagged ‘Lung Cancer’
Lung cancer may have genetic causes
Smoking is the most frequent cause of lung cancers, but there is a significant number of people developing the disease too, having never smoked. Even if another risk factor for non-smokers is passive smoking, there is another cause that can cause cancer, without there ever having been exposed to tobacco smoke.
A percentage of 30% of patients with lung cancer, it would be for a genetic cause. To find U.S. researchers who have found genetic variations responsible for these cases of lung cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
Non-smokers risk lung cancer due to gene
The cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers is attributed to GPC5, a gene that is activated or deactivated in two stretches of the genome. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in New York have used a Capone of 574 people who had smoked a maximum of 100 cigarettes in their whole life.
So many people suffering from lung cancer despite never having touched a cigarette. And this is anger: how is it that we can get sick without somehow facilitated cancer? Read the rest of this entry »
Lung Cancer
Cells are the smallest living units of the human body. One function is to reproduce and die when no longer useful. This process is very neat, in time and space, so there is always that allows the appropriate number of cells for each stage of life.
When this multiplication of cells occurs in an uncontrolled manner, forming lumps. These masses are called tumors.
There may be benign and malignant tumors. Benign tumors are those that do not spread to other areas and do not compromise a person’s life. Read the rest of this entry »