If you smoke, you damage your lung tissue, and then lung cancer arises.

And people are suffering from all kinds of pain like neuropathic pain, lower back pain and cancer pain from bone metastases, when the metastases get to your bones, sometimes they are very painful.

The volume of a lung is very small, but what about the area of the lung?

He had metastases in his right buttock, and he couldn't sit even with medication.

He died of lung cancer.

How do you say lung ?

And the cancer, the body is saying the lung tissue is damaged, we need to repair the lung. And cancer is originating in the lung trying to repair because you have this excessive proliferation of these remarkable cells that really have the potential to become lung tissue.

We knew it wasn't lung cancer.

My father died of lung cancer.

This can also cause lung cancer.

But then again, this fact that the metastases didn't go to skeletal muscle made that seem unlikely.

You're looking at her open lung biopsy.

Now a lung is something very strange.

He is afraid of getting lung cancer.

And the same vessels that are feeding tumors allow cancer cells to exit into the circulation as metastases.

Now look at that. That's a real lung.

She was diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago.

My left lung had collapsed when I was born.

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Totally by coincidence, there's that thing in my lung.

In this scene, people are living in an iron lung.

Or polio? How many of you remember the iron lung?

Three years ago, she entered the Novocure lung cancer trial.

BD Novocure's also working on lung cancer as the second target.

A normal lung is all sort of dark and black here.

And you think, the more highways there are in a tissue, the more likely it is to get cancer or to get metastases.

And according to them, this creates an artificial lung in the filter.

You do an open lung biopsy when you've got no other options.

In contrast, deaths due to lung cancer have declined significantly among men.

How about blowing into this tube so I can measure your lung capacity?

Smokers are far more likely to develop lung cancer than non smokers are.

So this is a woman, 46 years old, who had recurrent lung cancer.

My doctor wanted me to get on the list for a lung transplant.

And his total lung capacity is twice the size of an average person.

But just a few months ago, Judy was diagnosed with stage three lung cancer.

We have more trials planned for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer.

Why so? Because, in fact, the area of the lung is something very ill defined.

He said, Your shoulder's going to be fine, but Dave, there's something in your lung.

The cancers most commonly causing death are breast (2,594 deaths), lung (2,382) and colorectal (2,153).

Maybe a few lung diseases here and there, but, you know, that's not such a big deal.

Some say that a normal male's lung has an area of the inside of a basketball court .

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Some articles even went as far as to say that skeletal muscle tissue is resistant to cancer, and furthermore, not only to cancer, but of metastases going to skeletal muscle.

And what metastases are is when the tumor when a piece breaks off and travels through the blood stream and goes to a different organ. That's what a metastasis is.

And the other really interesting thing is that when skeletal muscle there's been several reports that when skeletal muscle is injured, that's what correlates with metastases going to skeletal muscle.