{"id":6229,"date":"2018-10-15T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:07:44","slug":"cancer-awareness-month-lung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=6229","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Awareness Month: Lung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is stunning:<\/p>\n<p><em>Worldwide, lung cancer is the most common malignancy and the most common cause of cancer deaths in the past few decades. In 2012, a total of\u00a0<b>1.8 million new cases<\/b>\u00a0were estimated, accounting for 12.9% of all new cancer diagnoses.<\/em> (source: https:\/\/go.nature.com\/2xPytsH) And the single most important risk factor for all these deaths, as you might guess, is tobacco use.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1860102696  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6231\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:232\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CloserLook_Lung-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:232\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CloserLook_Lung.jpg 232w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CloserLook_Lung.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:791\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CloserLook_Lung.jpg 791w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1470\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CloserLook_Lung.jpg 1470w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:3482\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CloserLook_Lung.jpg 2205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><img data-opt-id=1975228735  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6230\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:233\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cancer_fighting_foods_week2-233x300.jpg?resize=233%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:233\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cancer_fighting_foods_week2.jpg 233w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cancer_fighting_foods_week2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:796\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cancer_fighting_foods_week2.jpg 796w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1470\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cancer_fighting_foods_week2.jpg 1470w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:3482\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cancer_fighting_foods_week2.jpg 2205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is stunning: Worldwide, lung cancer is the most common malignancy and the most common cause of cancer deaths in the past few decades. In 2012, a total of\u00a01.8 million &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-health-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cancer_fighting_foods_week2.jpg?fit=2625%2C3375&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-1Ct","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9001,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=9001","url_meta":{"origin":6229,"position":0},"title":"The Lung Cancer You Don&#8217;t Feel","author":"Will Clower","date":"November 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in both men and women (not counting skin cancer), and is by far the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women. 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