What is Lung Cancer?

Are there different types of Lung Cancer?

Who gets Lung Cancer and what are the risk factors?

What are the signs and symptoms of Lung Cancer?

How is Lung Cancer diagnosed?

Staging and what happens after Lung Cancer is diagnosed?

How is Lung Cancer treated?

What types of radiation technologies are used to treat Lung Cancer? (IMRT, IGRT and Stereostatic Radiosurgery)

What are the side effects of radiation?

What is Respiratory Gating?

How can I learn more about radiation therapy for Lung Cancer at ARC?

Other Resources:

The Radiation Treatment Process

There are several signs and symptoms in patients that are found to have lung cancer, however not all patients exhibit any or all of these symptoms.

Physical symptoms which may be associated with lung cancer include changes in the respiration such as shortness of breath, either at rest or after mild exertion such as climbing stairs; a cough, sometimes with blood noted in the sputum; hoarseness; or unexplained weight loss.

The most common medical sign is an abnormality on a routine chest x-ray, or if another type of scan was performed for another reason, such as a CAT scan.    Other signs can include wheezing or abnormalities noted when your doctor listens to your lungs, or even abnormal swelling of the fingernail beds which is called “clubbing.”  These signs, though, are less common than physical patient symptoms or chest x-ray changes.

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