im 10 and i know it sounds stupid but i have a lot of the symptoms of lung cancer (blood in sputum, chronic cough) and im to scared to tell my parents but i have a annual doctors check-up next week and i’ll be gettting a blood test so i wanna know, would they find it in the blood??? PLEASE HELP!

Am thinking that:
- lung cancer, from what I’ve read, looks like any old thing until it’s too late
- doctors use research to inform their judgement around testing
- research suggests that cancer tends to show up in older people

Someone who started smoking at 11 will have smoked for 20 years by the time they’re 31. Their doctor might not bother testing for cancer because the age profile is lower than the typical threshold (age 50, I think).
Thanks Denise, for replying.

But if the number of cigarettes smoked is, as many people say, the most important cause of lung cancer, what role does age play?

http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Abstract/1993/09000/The_Effect_of_Age_at_Smoking_Initiation_on_Lung.10.aspx

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/91/7/614

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2002/110p555-558wiencke/wiencke-full.html

One of the articles above suggests that early smoking affects development in a special way…

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Constructive criticism is appreciated :)

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