Getting diagnosed with lung cancer is tough situation to deal with. I am not just writing that, I know how it is since I got diagnosed with kidney cancer, just seven months after my wife had received her breast cancer diagnosis. Lung cancer has the highest mortality rates of all cancerous disease and exposure to asbestos is one possible cause for people contracting this form of cancer.
It is important that the newly diagnosed patient and his family learns as much as possible about his illness and fully understands what to expect. Finding the right treatment protocol together with you health care professionals is the first step. Further to that, think about lifestyle changes. What can you do in odder to help your immune system in fighting the cancer? Lastly, think about your quality of life and your financial situation. One of the first questions patients usually have is about their lung cancer prognosis. You doctors will be able to give you detailed information.
Of course, you can also use the internet to find out more. However, you need to be careful with that. First of all, there is a lot of contradicting information out there and secondly, especially if you just received your lung cancer diagnosis, there a lot of things like terms and definitions, you can't put into the right context at that point.
In general, health care professionals and scientist speak of two different types of lung cancer prognosis; favorable and unfavorable. A favorable lung cancer prognosis means that you are likely to respond well to the available treatments. And unfavorable means the opposite.

Your cancer prognosis depends on many individual factors, including your age and overall health. Secondly, the characteristic of you tumor or tumors, and whether or not your cancer has already spread to areas inside the body. You also need to keep in mind, that all cancer prognoses are based on assumptions and existing data. But you are an individual and what may apply to many other people, may not necessarily be true for you.