Is there a difference between smoking-related lung cancer and non-smoking-related lung cancer?
It appears that the biggest difference is that people who are not smokers tend to do better overall. Their prognosis is better overall than people who have smoking-related lung cancer. But that probably has more to do with the fact that people who are not smoking are, overall, more fit. So they respond better to treatment. It may not have anything to do with the biology of the cancer; it just has to do with the physiology of the person. Are certain types of lung cancer more treatable than others? What’s the general survival rate? If you catch a lung cancer early a Stage 1 cancer it’s going to be more treatable than an advanced lung cancer. If you have a cancer that can be operated, that can be removed, you have a very good chance, a better chance than not, of being able to be cured. But the problem is that most people who go to doctor with some sort of symptom already have advanced lung cancer, so it’s too late. Survival rates for all lung cancer: in the first year, six out of 10 peopl
