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For Your Health
10 MYTHS
About Lung Cancer
ung cancer is a profoundly common and dangerous cancer, melanoma, all sarcomas, all childhood cancers and
disease, but we don’t talk about it nearly enough. Did all domestic violence combined.
Lyou know that lung cancer kills four times more women
compared to breast cancer and three times more people Myth #2: “Lung cancer is a hopeless
compared to colon cancer? death sentence.”
The good news is that lung cancer screenings can detect Caught early, lung cancer can be curable in more than 95%
cancer early and there are excellent new treatments of cases. Surgical removal of early stage lung cancers can be
available. By educating yourself on lung cancer, you could extremely effective with excellent results. With a late
save your life and those you care about. diagnosis, lung cancer is very difficult to treat and survival is
not nearly as good compared to when lung cancer is
Myth # 1: “Lung cancer is not very common.” diagnosed in its earliest stages.
Lung cancer is the nation’s leading cause of cancer death
among both men and women. It kills more Americans than
breast cancer, colon cancer,
prostate cancer, ovarian
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