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How can lung cancer usually lead to death?
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Respiratory: Pneumonia congestion, metastatic effusion and lung compression bone or brain spread and complications clotting and pulmonary emboli. Weight loss, malnutrition, cachexia, are some of the more common ways.
Answered 7/14/2018
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