Metastatic lung cancer
Symptoms of metastatic lung tumors depend on the location and size.
About 30% -40% of lung cancer patients have symptoms or
signs of metastasis.
Lung cancer often spreads to the liver, adrenal glands, bones and brain.
Metastasis of lung cancer in the liver usually causes no symptoms, at... Read more » |
Risk factors for lung cancer
smoking
Carcinogens contained in tobacco smoke, lead over time to alter the structure and function of the epithelium and contribute to lung cancer. Smoking causes lung cancer in about 90% of cases.
Mortality from lung cancer of smokers is signi... Read more » |
Asbestos - a mineral with a characteristic fibrous structure, the chemical structure of a silicate, consisting of double salts of magnesium and silicon, and sometimes calcium oxide, aluminum and other elements. Suspected lung cancer link with inhaled asbestos dust arose in England in 1930. Can be regarded as established that among the pneumoconioses lung cancer is most common in asbestosis. Among the breakout of cases of... Read more »
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Lung Cancer: Alternative treatment
Radiation therapy
Radiation therapy - cancer treatment using high energy x-rays or other types of radiation to kill cancer cells. Radiation therapy can be used as an external influence, and with the internal (injection, capsules, catheters). Radiation therapy is often used in combination with surgery or chemotherapy. Radiat... Read more »
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Prevention of Lung Cancer:
Given the seriousness of the projections in the identification of lung cancer, it is necessary to remember a simple yet highly effective means of prevention of lung cancer:
• The most effective at reducing the risk of giving up smoking. It is believed that 10 years without smoking returns the risk of former smokers in the lowest level.
• Coping with radon areas due to some not very com... Read more »
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Diagnosis of lung cancer, until recently, is a complex, not completely solved problem. Analysis of the ratio of patients with newly diagnosed disease and referred for treatment in the allocation of the stages shows that in recent decades there has a certain stabilization in the general disadvantage of the case. Among hospitalized patients in specialized clinics stage I lung cancer detected only at 6-16%, II stage - 20 to 35% and Stage III - at 50-75%. Over 10% of pa... Read more »
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Impairment of health and related lung cancer clinical signs of disease is very variable, and their appearance depends on the stage of t... Read more »
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Cancer cells divide rapidly, the tumor starts to grow in size. If untreated, it grows int... Read more »
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Smoking and lung cancer. The increase in lung cancer incidence is in direct proportion to the growth in cigarette consumption and the number of smokers. Pollution of air inhaled radon, asbestos, chromium, products of thermal processing of coal, oil and gas, wood and metal dust dramatically increases the risk of lung cancer.... Read more » |
Methods of treatment of lung cancer Ability to treat lung cancer are determined by location and stage of the process, as well as the morphology of the tumor.
The main method of treatment of lung cancer (excluding small cel... Read more » |
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