My friends girlfriend told him one day that she has lung cancer but she never smoked a day in her life. She said she's been on antibiotics but they're currently not working. The doctors told her she would have to go through surgery plus start chemotherapy soon after. Is it possible to be born with it? Or even develop it at some point in a persons lifetime? By the way she is 17 years old. She also mentioned something about having Bronchitis. Can Bronchitis turn into lung cancer?
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I don't think you can be Born with it... But then again.. How can it develop? That must mean you can... Now im abit confused.
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I am sorry but the girl in Q is mistaken what Doc told her. She must be having some other congenital lung problem or it is a lie. No congenital lung Ca.reported so far. May be she has some other problem. It is highly advisable for her to have second Specialist opinion.
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It is rare to be born with cancer and when it happens it is never lung cancer. When babies are born with cancer it is treated immediately, not years later. If your friend’s girlfriend is under 30 years old she does not have lung cancer and antibiotics are never used to treat cancer.
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There is a rare subtype of lung cancer that occurs in infants and in young children called Pleuropulmonary Blastoma. This type of cancer almost never occurs in teenagers though. Pleuropulmonary Blastoma Registry http://www.ppbregistry.org/ Pleuropulmonary Blastoma - Childhood Cancer http://www.cancer.net/patient/Cancer+Types/Pleuropulmonary+Blastoma+-+Childhood?sectionTitle=Overview It is difficult to tell from your question what is going on with this girl. It may be that she has metastatic cancer that has traveled to her lungs . . . lung cancer is generally an adult disease and other than subtypes or metastatic disease . . teens do not get lung cancer. No one knows what 'causes' lung cancer . . smoking is considered a 'risk factor' . . but there are plenty of people who smoke and never get cancer and there are patients with lung cancer who never smoked . . (all over the age of 40).
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