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Introduction

Did you know that lung disease is the third leading cause of death in the U.S.? In fact, each year nearly 400,000 people in the United States die of lung disease, and over 35 million people in the U.S. suffer from a chronic lung disease.1

Some NetWellness health topics focusing on lung diseases are asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma, pulmonary fibrosis, More»

 

:: You and Your Lungs

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My mother-in-law is a smoker and smokes a lot. She was just told that she has a nodule on her lung. She has been coughing up blood for about a month now. Could it be cancer? They are sending her for a PET scan.

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