Most lung cancers start in the cells that line the bronchi, and can take years to develop. As they grow larger they prevent the lungs from functioning normally.
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When you have lung cancer, there is a mass or a collection of cancer cells in the lungs. The cancer cells will be spreading out to other organs of the body (metastasis). What happens to the lungs is...