Lung cancer - Simple English Wikipedia

# Lung cancer

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Lung cancer is a disease. It is one of the most deadly forms of cancer. It affects the lungs. Only one in ten patients survives 5 years, after being diagnosed. Lung cancer has become the most often diagosed cancer in women (as of 2006). The main causes of this cancer are:

- Smoking cigarettes, or inhaling other kinds of tobacco smoke.
- Exposure to radiation
- Genetic factors (hereditary)

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