Non Cardiac Chest Pain

Asthma is an inflammation of your airways. The tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs become overly sensitive and narrow or tighten causing wheezing, coughing, difficulty breathing and a feeling of fullness or tightness in your chest.

Bronchiectasis is an abnormal widening of the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs (your airways).

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of conditions that cause long term (chronic) breathing difficulty due to lung damage. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are both included in this group.The main cause of COPD is smoking.

Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in England and Wales.* The most frequent cause of lung cancer is smoking.

Your oesophagus is the tube that connects your mouth to your stomach, over time this can narrow.