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lung cancer, Prevention
According to a new research report, women can walk around with
lung cancer for a longer time than men before diagnosis because women do not develop the obvious signs and symptoms of the disease. Women with
lung cancer can pass normal lung function tests where men with
lung cancer will show diminished lung function normally associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD. Traditionally, COPD is a first alert to physicians to run
lung cancer tests. Researchers are suggesting that a different set of criteria needs to be considered for women, and that women should not be considered at less risk of having
lung cancer simply because they do not present with the classic symptoms for the disease. The longer
lung cancer has a chance to develop -- the later the diagnosis of
lung cancer -- the less potential there is in surviving
lung cancer. One of the reasons
lung cancer is such a deadly disease is because few cases of
lung cancer are diagnosed at an early stage.
