Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the world (after skin cancer) and the most cause of cancer death.
It often affects people aged between the ages of fifty and seventy.
A disease can be prevented to a large extent _ as main danger factor is smoking _ in the past always had lung cancer is more common among men, but the gap narrowed in recent years a lot after that increased numbers of women smokers.
Also, people who spend a lot of time in an atmosphere redolent with smoke - as in bars, for example, workers - are also vulnerable to the risk of lung cancer due to passive smoking.
Signs and symptoms:
• chronic cough (continuous), sometimes contains sputum (phlegm) overprinted with blood.
• Shortness of breath.
• unexplained loss of weight.
• chest pain.
• humming.
• symptoms of bronchitis or pneumonia.
And some forms of lung cancer have no symptoms until it is too late.
Can balls lung cancer very slowly, symptoms may take many years to appear, in addition to that, there are types of lung cancer does not cause any symptoms until the final stages. As a result, it can not be diagnosed with lung cancer until too late completely and become limited treatment options.
If suspected your doctor that you have lung cancer, you will be asked a radiograph of the chest - it confirms the diagnosis by shadow abnormal lung, may also be required doctor you send a sample of sputum to the laboratory for analysis and make sure whether they contain cancer cells, or may refer you to a section bronchoscopy. There, tube is passed through the mouth into the lungs to preview bronchitis.
Lung cancer treatment options:
There are three options for treatment and identifies each nature of cancer and the extent exacerbated:
• Surgery: lumpectomy only by surgery if the cancer has not spread to other organs, if there was no spread, surgeons eradicate lung and one whole or a substantial part thereof.
• Chemotherapy: following surgery is usually chemotherapy to eradicate the tumor, and this type of therapy is also used to target very malignant tumors.
• therapeutics scans: This treatment slows tumor growth but does not eliminate it completely, which is often used to treat tumors of micro - known Banakaúl Metastases that has spread from the lungs to the brain, bones and liver, and often follows the initial scans therapy chemotherapy.
The long-term outlook:
Be the chance of recovery from cancer the best for people who discover they have the disease early, where it can fully heal from it.
But the outlook remains weak overall, where it remains one person out of 20 survived after 5 years of treatment, and in cases where the prevalence of the disease, successful treatment effective only in relief and improved quality of life, but it does not prolong life expectancy.
Prevention of lung cancer
The Quit Smoking reduces the principle of risk of lung cancer.
Research has shown that ex-smokers are exposed more than just a little bit to the risk of de
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