Eighty-seven
percent of all lung cancers
are caused by smoking. Smokers have approximately
one chance in 10 of developing lung cancer over their lifetime. Lung
cancer can be one of the most fatal forms of cancer.
Kentucky has the highest incidence of adult smoking (2) and the highest
incidence of lung cancer - (in 1997 to 1998 82 cases per 100,000 people
per year). Lung cancer rates are 52% higher in Kentucky than the
national average (1).
To the above and right is a
picture of a surgical specimen of a lung, filled with cancer.
View Video of Laryngoscopy Video
of a Vocal Cord Paralysis Caused By Lung Cancer
View Bronchoscopy & Lung Biopsy Video - 5 Min
Movie with Narration
