Lung cancer starts in your lungs and can spread to other parts of your body. There are more than 20 kinds of lung cancer.

Lung cancer is responsible for the most cancer-related deaths for both men and women throughout the world.

With lung cancer, one of your first questions probably is if you might be cured. That is, what are your odds of survival?

Some other conditions can have similar warning signs to lung cancer. It’s important to find out what’s going on.

Lung cancer happens when the cells in your lungs mutate, or change. A variety of things cause lung cancer.

Age, sex, race, income, and access to screening and preventive care factor into who gets lung cancer.

Smoking is far and away the leading cause of lung cancer, even for nonsmokers who get it from secondhand smoke.

You can get lung cancer even if you've never put a cigarette to your lips. There are lots of reasons why this can happen.

Lung cancer usually has no symptoms in its early stages.

Studies show at least 65% of people with lung cancer have a nagging cough by the time they’re diagnosed.

About 1 in every 4 people with lung cancer say they've had back pain at some point since their diagnosis.

Shoulder pain is the most common symptom of a type of cancer called Pancoast tumor. These tumors are rare.

Lung cancer is usually confirmed with a biopsy. Your doctor will also determine the cancer type and how far it has spread.

If you're a smoker or have other risks for lung cancer, you may want to get a screening test.

If your doctor spots something out of the ordinary on your chest X-ray or CT scan, they may ask you to get a lung biopsy.

With a thoracentesis, a doctor uses imaging guidance to put a needle through your chest wall and into the pleural space. 

As you go through lung cancer treatment, you’ll have a whole team of professionals ensuring that you’re getting quality care.

Finding out you have lung cancer can be overwhelming. Use this list of questions to help you get the answers you’ll need.

The news that you have lung cancer can be scary. It’s hard to know what to do next. Here are a few things to think about.