Lung cancer : What do you know about it?

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Lung cancer : What do you know about it?    Lung Cancer Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the world ( after skin cancer ) and cause of death of most cancer . It affects most often people aged between the ages of fifty and seventy . A disease that can be prevented to a large extent _ where the threat is the main factor _ smoking in the past was always lung cancer is more common among men, but the gap has narrowed in recent years, much of the increased numbers of women smokers . Also, people who spend a lot of time in an atmosphere redolent with smoke - such as people working in bars , for example - are also susceptible to the risk of lung cancer due to passive smoking .     Signs and symptoms :  • chronic cough (continuous ) , sometimes containing a spit ( sputum ) Noah blood. • shortness of breath . • an unexplained loss of weight . • chest pain. • humming . • symptoms of bronchitis or pneumonia. And some forms of lung cancer have no symptoms until too late altogether. Balls can be 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 they become in their final stages . As a result , it can not be diagnosed with lung cancer until too late and become quite limited treatment options .  If the doctor suspects you have cancer of the lung , you'll be asked to make a radiograph of the chest - has confirms the diagnosis by shade abnormal lung , as well as the doctor may ask you to send a sample of sputum to the laboratory in order to analyze and ascertain whether they contain cancer cells , or may refer you to a section bronchoscope . There , a tube is passed through the mouth into the lungs to preview bronchitis . Treatment options for lung cancer : There are three options for treatment and determines the nature of each cancer and the extent of deepening : • Surgery can remove the tumor by surgery only if it was not the cancer has spread to other organs , if there has been no spread , surgeons eradicate lung and one whole or a substantial part thereof . • Chemotherapy : following surgery is usually standard chemotherapy to eradicate the tumor , and this type of therapy is also used to target malignant tumors too. • scans therapy : This therapy slows tumor growth but does not destroy it completely , which is often used to treat tumors of micro - known Bamako Metastases that has spread from the lungs to the brain , liver and bones , and often follows the initial scans therapeutics chemotherapy . The long-term outlook :   Lung Cancer Chance to be cured of cancer best for people who discover they have the disease early , where it can heal him completely . But the outlook remains weak overall , where the remains of one person out of 20 are alive after 5 years of treatment , and in cases where there is disease , succeed effective treatment only in the ease and improve the 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 demonstrated that ex-smokers are exposed to only a little more risk of developing the disease than non-smokers .