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What Is Lung Cancer And Who Can Get It?
simple answer to the question, "What is lung cancer?" In healthy
individuals, the cells within the lungs go about their business
duplicating at a normal rate and turning into more and more lung
tissues. The lungs continue to function properly and all is
well.
But in damaged lungs, this rate of cell duplication becomes
uncharacteristically fast yet new lung tissue fails to develop.
These damaged (cancerous) cells begin to clump together and
ultimately turn into cancerous tumors. Eventually, the tumors
begin to interfere with the impacted lung's ability to function
normally and th...
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