No. Although both of these cancers can affect the lungs, pleural mesothelioma is entirely different from lung cancer.
Pleural mesothelioma starts in the lining of the lungs, not the lung itself. Doctors must also use different treatments on pleural mesothelioma patients than on lung cancer patients.
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