The 7 most common lung diseases are pulmonary hypertension, bronchitis, pulmonary fibrosis, lung cancer, pneumonia, COPD and asthma.
Pulmonary hypertension is a type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries in your lungs, and the right side of your heart, which forces your heart to work harder.
Bronchitis is inflammation of your bronchial tubes, which are the airways that carry air to your lungs and leads to a persistent cough with mucus.
Pulmonary Fibrosis is a lung tissue disease, in which the tissue becomes thick and scarred, which results in permanent loss of lung function and shortness of breath.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the entire world, which involves the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in your lung tissue.
Pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both of your lungs, which can fill with fluid or pus, which causes coughs, fever and chills.
COPD is also known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and is a group of progressive lung conditions, most notably emphysema as well as chronic bronchitis, that causes breathing difficulties and blocks airflow.
Asthma is a chronic, widespread lung disease that causes your airways to swell and narrow, which leads to difficulty breathing, coughing and chest tightness.
The deadliest lung diseases are lung cancer, pulmonary arterial hypertension, tuberculosis, COPD and pneumonia.
Lung cancer is the deadliest and most lethal lung disease that causes more deaths per year, than colon cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer combined.
COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is also among the most dangerous and deadly lung disease, which ranks as the third leading cause of death in the world, as it leads to irreversible and progressive damage to the airways.
Lung cancer, which is the leading cause of death from cancer, globally, which includes non small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer.
Small cell lung cancer is the most aggressive type of lung cancer and non small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer.
COPD is also known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and includes the conditions of chronic bronchitis as well as emphysema and is mainly caused by smoking, although even non smokers can also get COPD.
COPD can lead to severe and irreversible breathing difficulties.
Pneumonia is also a top cause of death in the elderly as well as children, which causes severe inflammation and fluid in your alveoli.
Tuberculosis is also the deadliest infectious lung disease and kills over 1.6 million people a year.
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension is also a fatal lung condition, in which your blood pressure raises dangerously and restricts your blood flow.
Smoking is also the number one cause of lung cancer.
While lung cancer can be caused by other factors, smoking causes around 90 percent of all lung cancer cases.
Tobacco smoke contains several chemicals that are known to cause lung cancer.
Chemicals, pollutants in the air and even some weed killers and smoke from fires and burning of toxic materials can also cause lung cancer to develop.
Asbestos can lead a lung cancer called mesothelioma, which is a very deadly lung cancer condition.
Mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive form of cancer that develops in the thin tissue lining of your lungs, abdomen and or heart.
Mesothelioma is mainly caused by swallowing or inhaling of microscopic asbestos fibers.
Symptoms of mesothelioma often take between 20 years to 50 years to appear and can include chest pain, unexplained weight loss and shortness of breath.
Mesothelioma develops in the protective lining covering internal organs called the mesohelium.
Pleural Mesothelioma affects the lining of the lungs in around 75 percent to 80 percent of cases.
Peritoneal Mesothelioma affects the lining of your abdominal cavity.
Pericardial Mesothelioma affects the sac that surrounds your heart.
Tunica Vaginalis Mesothelioma affects the lining of your testes, which is extremely rare.
High risk environments for workers to develop mesothelioma include those working or who have worked in shipyards, construction, auto repair, and manufacturing.
Even family members of asbestos workers can also develop the mesothelioma disease, simply from inhaling of the asbestos fibers that are brought home on work clothes.
Mesothelioma is not curable, but is highly treatable through surgery, chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Surgery can remove the mesothelioma tumor that surrounds the affected tissue.
Immunotherapy can help your own immune system to recognize and fight the mesothelioma cancer cells.
And chemotherapy can use drugs to kill the cancer cells through the body.