Lung Cancer Risk Factors

Have you been exposed to any of the following lung cancer risk factors?

Smoking

Are you a person who currently smokes? Or are you a person who smoked for a long time, then stopped smoking?

Secondhand smoke

Have you been exposed to secondhand smoke?

Radon

Have you been exposed to radon in your home, workplace, or another location?

Asbestos

Have you been exposed to asbestos in your home, workplace, or another location?

Arsenic

Have you been exposed to arsenic in your drinking water?

Uranium

Have you been exposed to uranium in your workplace?

Chemicals in your workplace

Have you been exposed to beryllium, cadmium, chromium, nickel, coal smoke, soot, silica,  diesel fumes, or other chemicals at your workplace?

Radiation therapy

Have you had radiation therapy to the chest in the past?

Infections that cause chronic inflammation

Do you have infections that have caused chronic inflammation in your body?

Air pollution

Have you been exposed to significant air pollution?

A family history of lung cancer

Have any of your relatives had lung cancer?

Related diseases

  • Do you have any of the following diseases?
    • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
    • Widespread pulmonary fibrosis
    • Cancer of the stomach, bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervical, head, or neck
    • Acute myeloid leukaemia
    • Lymphoma

If you have been exposed to one or more of the risk factors above or have persistent symptoms, ask your doctor to do tests to see if you have lung cancer.

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