See Also: Lung cancer(health)
lung cancer(encyclopedia)
Lung cancer(medicine)
cancer, lung(medicine)
Cancer, lung(health)
secondary lung cancer(medicine)
Familial lung cancer(health)
metastatic lung cancer(medicine)
metastatic cancer to the lung(medicine)
Cancer, small cell lung(health)

Lung cancer (medicine)


lung cancer


A cancerous growth in lung tissue. Lung cancer may be metastatic from another source (colon) or may be primary (tumour is of lung cell origin). Classification is based on the type of cell the lung cancer originates from (adenocarcinoma, alveolar cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, large cell and small cell carcinomas).