What is 'lung cancer'?

What is 'lung cancer'?

Jay M. Lee (Surgical Director, Thoracic Oncology Program, UCLA) gives expert video advice on: What ethnicity has the highest incidence of lung cancer?; Can non-smokers get lung cancer?; Is the mortality rate high for those diagnosed with lung cancer? and more...

Lung cancer is a malignancy or a neoplasm of the lung tissue itself. Lung cancer can present in the lung tissue itself or in the airway defining it as an endobronchial lesion. It's thought that lung cancer arises from cells that line the airway called the bronchus.