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Lung Cancer By Tyler Dipietro Lung Cancer is a “cancer that begins in the lungs and most often occurs in people who smoke.” Eighty to ninety percent of people who have lung cancer get it from smoking. 1)(https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/risk_factors.htm) However, it can also be caused by secondhand smoke, exposure to certain toxins, and family history. Symptoms of the illness include cough(often with blood),Chest pain, wheezing and weight loss(although these symptoms don't occur until the cancer is advanced). All Cancer advances in stages, stage one, stage two, stage three and stage four, with one being the most mild and with four being the most severe. Stage I means the cancer is small and only in one area. This is also called early-stage cancer. Stage II and III mean the cancer is larger and has grown into nearby tissues or lymph nodes. Stage IV means the cancer has spread to other parts of your body. There are treatments, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted drug therapy and immunotherapy and therefore Lung Cancer is treatable by a Medical professional. However, before it can be treated or even diagnosed, it requires not only a medical diagnosis but oftentimes lab tests or imaging. In the US alone, there are over 200,000 Americans diagnosed per year with Lung Cancer. Most people diagnosed are at the age of seventy. It is mostly found in Women, even though Men are at a greater risk of developing it. Lung Cancer affects people mentally in that they obviously become very upset if they are diagnosed with Lung Cancer or if their loved ones are diagnosed with Lung Cancer. Not only can it lead to massive increases in how upset you feel in your mind and thus everywhere else in your body but it also leads to a dramatic increase in the stress levels of not only the victims of Lung Cancer but the families of the victims of Lung Cancer. I know all of these things for firsthand facts. I know it leads to increases in feelings of stress in the victims because my Grandfather was always stressed when he wheezed, had Chest Pain and involuntarily lost fifty lbs, making him weak and unhealthy and in their families because my Grandmother and his other relatives(including myself) were always stressed taking care of him, not because they had to, that they had no problem doing but because of their angst feelings of what might happen to him at any given moment. I know it upset him because he cried not only because he would one day be gone but also for me, because he knew, it would hit me a lot harder than most and make me depressed because we were so very close and I even felt these emotions writing this but nevertheless I felt to write it to honor him, exactly two years after his death. Lung Cancer affects people socially in that many of our loved ones can very often be diagnosed with Lung Cancer. There is a one in fifteen chance that if you are a man, you will be diagnosed with Lung Cancer at some point in your lifetime and a one in seventeen chance if you are a woman. This means it is extremely likely if you don't have a Friend or Family Member who is diagnosed with Lung Cancer already, that you very likely will at some point in your life. I, for example, had a Grandfather who passed away two exactly two years ago today and that is why I choose Lung Cancer, to honor him. Also I don't want to scare anybody but while one in fifteen or one in seventeen chances are low, they are far from impossible. So it is also possible that Lung Cancer could, unfortunately, be contracted by people themselves and affect them directly, if they get it in their lifetimes. Lung Cancer affects people physically because of the harm it does to the bodies of the people who get lung cancer. As mentioned earlier, it can cause you to cough and oftentimes it can even cause you to cough out blood! It can cause Chest pain, Wheezing and even Weight Loss. Weight Loss can do significant damage to a person's body. For example, my Grandfather, who was once 194 lbs, lost a total of fifty lbs and was at his lightest and worse and towards the end of his life was 144 lbs. The average Adult American is 175 lbs and losing fifty lbs, in most contexts might sound great but not when it is not only involuntary but when it makes you significantly below average and UNHEALTHILY thin. Lung Cancer can affect us in the future in that if we don't find a cure for not only the people who already have it but people who may have it in the future, people will keep dying. As mentioned earlier, more than 200,000 people die from it every year! That is just in the US alone! It can also affect the Planet in the future in that if we have fewer people, that means less progress for all. That means less progress for all Eight Billion of us. If Lung Cancer continues, then so do the deaths of over two hundred thousand Americans every year! So we need to find a cure that works for not just all the people who already have Lung Cancer but all the people who could have it in the future if we don't find it now! We can fund more research regarding to Cancer at a Federal Level, as much as we possibly can to combat it for the more than 200,000 Americans who already are diagnosed every year. We are already funding research but clearly not nearly enough because we still don't have a cure so we still need to not only increase the funding at a Federal Level but also cooperate a lot more Internationally and do a lot more research Internationally in a best effort to find a cure for Lung Cancer. That is so important to the world right now, not only for the 200,000 people diagnosed in the US every year but for God knows how many people everywhere else in the world per year, so that they can all get cured. My topic of Lung Cancer does fit into the six themes of Biology. Those are Cell Structure & Function, Stability & Homeostasis, Reproduction & Inheritance, Evolution, Interdependence of Organisms and Matter, Energy, & Organization. It fits into all of these because of the way not only Lung Cancer Cells but all Cancer Cells function. Lung Cancer fits into the theme of Cell Structure & Function because they function by spreading throughout our bodies, it fits into the topic of Stability & Homeostasis because our body tries to adjust for as long as we can before we eventually pass away or until we are eventually cured. It fits into reproduction because cells reproduce to spread and inheritance because it is sometimes genetically caused. It also fits into Evolution because the Cells had to evolve and still do evolve into different kinds of Cancer cells and finally it fits into Interdependence of Organisms and Matter, Energy, & Organization because all those microscopic cells are interdependent on each other to grow throughout the Human body.

Links To My Sources: 2.) https://www.mayoclinic.org/dis(eases-conditions/lung-cancer/symptoms-causes/syc-20374620,