However , there are certain types of lung cancers that appear in otherwise healthy patients who have never smoked . There are 2 main types of Lung cancer , small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer . Cancer found outside of the lung may be determined to have arisen within the lung , as lung cancers that metastasize , i.e. spread , often retain a cell marker profile that allow a pathologist to say , with a good deal of certainty , that the tumor arose from the lung , i.e. is a primary lung cancer .