How do early lung cancers appear? How are they treated? What are the steps of treatment?
Almost all of non-small cell lung cancers start as small nodules. Nodules undetected or neglected at this stage grow to become invasive cancers. Cancers larger than 3 cm are classified as masses. Lung cancers can sometimes appear like small nodules (Figure 1) or even like small pneumonias which are named as ground glass opacities (Figure…