Cancer Caused by Asbestos

Cancer can cause by bad environment or caused by some external substance that cannot be processed if enter into human body. Asbestos is one of an example of that substance. Asbestos often used for house part and house ornament. Asbestos become of this building material because of their characteristic that can stand from fire. Asbestos that breath into lung can cause cancer than called as asbestos cancer. Asbestos lung cancer also more risk to the peoples who are smoked, a dose relationship exists both for the degree of asbestos exposure and the amount of cigarette smoking, other kind of cancer that attack to smoker is lung cancer smoking.

Asbestos Cancer Explained

Most asbestos lung cancer starts in the lining of the bronchi, the tubes into which the trachea or windpipe divides. However, asbestos lung cancer can also begin in other areas such as the trachea, bronchioles (small branches of the bronchi), or alveoli (lung air sacs). Although lung cancer usually develops slowly, once it occurs, cancer cells can break away and spread to other parts of the body. The two most common types of lung cancer are small cell lung cancer (SCLC), in which the cancer cells are small and round, and non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in which the cancer cells are larger. Sometimes a cancer has features of both types, and is called mixed small cell/large cell cancer