AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -More people in the United States die from lung cancer than any other type of cancer. This is true for both men and women. The Lung Cancer Stat Bite provides an overview of incidence, deaths, stage distribution, and five-year relative survival.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lung and bronchus cancer is responsible for the most deaths with 130, 180 people expected to die from this disease. That is nearly three times the 52, 580 deaths due to colorectal cancer, which is the second most common cause of cancer death. Pancreatic cancer is the third deadliest cancer, causing 49, 830 deaths.

Detailed explanation-3: -Adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer in the United States and usually begins along the outer sections of the lungs. It is also the most common type of lung cancer in people who have never smoked. Large cell carcinomas are a group of cancers with large, abnormal-looking cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -Infections were responsible for death in 20% of the patients in the study. 2 About 60% died from pneumonia and 40% from an overwhelming infection that begins in the bloodstream and spreads through the entire body (sepsis).

Detailed explanation-5: -Lung cancer has been the leading cause of cancer deaths among men since the early 1950s, and in 1987 it surpassed breast cancer to become the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the United States. In 2008, worldwide lung cancer mortality amounted to 1.38 million deaths (18.2% of the total).