Lung Cancer
By: Jacob Henderson
Causes
Symptoms and Diagnosis
The diagnosis for lung cancer is getting a CT scan, by getting a CT scan it can reveal small lesions that might not be detected on an x-ray. You can also have a doctor look at your sputum, or spit, under a microscope and sometimes it can reveal the presence of lung cancer cells.
Body Region Affected
Current Treatments and Research
Some current treatments for lung cancer are; surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted drug therapy, clinical trials, and palliative care. Also scientists are researching new ways to help lung cancer patients and are finding new ways to hopefully cure it in the future. They say that the best thing right now that shows the most results is clinical trials. Also they say that biopsies can help with identifying the cancer they had and which treatment would've best benefited it.