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“The American Cancer Society estimates that 219,440  new cases of lung cancer in the U.S. will be diagnosed and 159,390  deaths  due to lung cancer will occur in 2009. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, approximately one out of every 14 men and women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer of the lung at some point in their lifetime. “ ([]) That is an extremely large amount of people to die from cancer. Almost 70% of people diagnosis with cancer are over 65 and under 3% are under 45. This is because people that are 65 now have probable been smoking there whole life since it was so common when they grew up. ||
 * media type="youtube" key="wMXcW_ujY10" height="385" width="480" ||  Like every other kind of cancer lung cancer starts with a tumor. If the tumor is in the lung then it is called lung cancer, obviously. Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the United States.