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No one with lung cancer needs to be alone in their fight against this disease. Lung Cancer: Your Questions, Expert Answers, Fourth Edition guides patients and their families through diagnosis, treatment and survivorship. Providing both the doctor\'s and patient\'s point of view, this book is a complete guide to understanding treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. Through Lung Cancer: Your Questions, Expert Answers, Fourth Edition, expert authors use their experiences with patients to provide support and hope to the tens of thousands of people coping with lung cancer. Lung Cancer: Medical Aspects of Causation. Aneuploidy. Unlimited cell reproduction and failure of cell death. Animal Studies. Basic Toxicology. New Data on Causation. New Studies. New Statistics. Number of cases. Kamil Konopka. Department of Oncology, University Hospital in Cracow. Lung cancer epidemiology. Most common malignancy worldwide. 14% of all new cancers are lung cancers. Lung cancer (NSCLC&SCLC) is the second most common cancer in both men and women (excluding skin cancers). , M.D. The term lung cancer, or bronchogenic carcinoma, refers to malignancies that originate in the airways or pulmonary parenchyma. Lung . cancer . is among . the most common . cancers worldwide. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in both men and women.