Currently, the United States of America contain thousands of people that are battling with diseases every day. On a yearly basis, a family member does the unthinkable by putting a member of their family to rest. One disease that kills numerous people each year is lung cancer. To a majority of individuals, the thought of lung cancer is devastating while to others it causes confusion and a lack of understanding. Why? What is lung cancer? What causes lung cancer? These are common questions one faces after receiving a lung cancer prognosis. Luckily, there are organizations whose sole purpose is to decipher the disease, work on treatment, and conceivably one day a cure. Lung cancer claims the lives of countless people each year and to fully understand the disease, one must acknowledge the following: types, symptoms, and treatment.
Unfortunately, there are two types of lung cancer that numerous people struggle with every day. To fully interpret the two types of lung cancer, one needs to know what cancer is. In science class most learn about biology and the fact that the human body consists of not only blood, bones, and organs, but also cells. It is these cells that cancer can form. Cancer develops when the cells become abnormal and form tumors. Tumors appear in all areas of the human body. “The two types of lung cancer are small cell lung cancer, and non-small cell lung cancer” (Jones 1). In a recent article Jones explains both types of cancer and the inequality in growth rates.