Lung cancer is one of the leading cause of death out of so many cancers around it surpasses colon and breast cancer. It is usually seen people ages 60 to 70. There are 2 types of cancer the benign and the malignant. In lung cancer malignant is higher compared to benign. Here are the following causes:
1. Leading the list are those smokers. It is the highest percentage than other causes. It is 10 times diagnosed to smokers than non-smokers. The longer the person smokes the higher the risk of having lung cancer it is because of the Tar in tobaccos and cigarettes.
2. People who work in mining like arsenic, chromium, iron oxides and coal dust.
3. People who live in the city than those who live in the country side, provinces or anywhere outside the city. It's very obvious it's because of the air pollution from cars, factories etc.
What are the symptoms?
In the early stage of cancer, you barely see any symptoms, that's why when the time it's diagnosed it is already in the advance stage. the most common symptom is
- having a cough that just don't leave even if antibiotics are already taken. When having some doubts about your cough you should see a doctor immediately. Especially, If it's been weeks or even months( with or without phlegm) and
- if your weight dropped rapidly,
- sudden lost of appetite and
- coughing out streaks of blood.
Image via Wikipedia One of the premier cancer today is the lung cancer. cancer is the number one disease for men and number three for women, cancer is commonly seen in men who's age is ranging from 35 and up. People with cancer in the lungs are commonly living in urban areas and communities.
Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer, Everybody cant get enough of smoking even though smoking is no good to our health, even government and private institutions cant stop us from smoking.Even people who don't smoke are affected because of second hand smoke that is more lethal to our health.
This are the 6 signs of lung caner cause by smoking:
1 Persistent cough, even drugs for cough cant cure it
2. Coughing out blood
3. Chest pain that does not go away
4. Changes in there voice and hoarseness of voice
5. Arm and shoulder pain
6. Swelling of the face and neck
7. Difficulty breathing
8. Wheezing
9. Unusual tiredness
10.Lost of appetite
11.Unexplained weight loss
12.Pulmonary attack and bronchitis
Right now, there's no proven methods in knowing if a person has a lung cancer until its complicated, there are some test and observations needed before a patient can be declared a lung cancer patient. right now there is no proven cure for lung cancer, chemotherapy is only a method for caring and help the patient in use anytime that there is a suspicion that there are active cancer cells. what it does is kills all the cells good and bad cells. killing cancer cells to help keep it from growing out of control and kills the cancer cells.
"Cigarettes smoking is dangerous to our health" this are the words we usually ignore when we by a pack of cigarettes. If you ask a smoker what are the good things they get from smoking, i think no one can answer a very positive answer, but still many are addicted to it. but if you ask what are the bad things you could get from smoking here are the top 5:
5. Halitosis or Bad Breath: No one wants a bad breath
4. Emphysema and Chronic bronchitis: Symptoms are hard to breath, continuous coughing, and too much phlegm in our lungs.
3. Heart Disease: the smoke of a cigarette retrograde to the oxygen that we breath, then oxygen combine with the blood that circulate around our body system , and then blood will go back to our heart with the chemicals that we get from the smoke of the cigarette. This is the cause of heart disease.
2. Cancer in the mouth, throat and esophagus: because cigarettes contains nicotine, carbon monoxide, at tar this chemicals causes cancer
1. Cancer in the lungs: This is the best disease that you could get in smoking cigarettes, and sometimes people who smoke don't even know and its too late after they know it that he has a lung cancer.
Still there are some bad things you could get from smoking cigarettes like teeth gets discolored, fingertips turns yellow, turns you into addict in smoking, smelly clothes, gets tired easily. and so much more.
Pregnant women who smokes can affects his unborn child because of chemicals that she inhale while smoking.
There are people that already stop from smoking but suddenly they keep coming back.
There are many ways to stop us from smoking, the only thing that we have to have is discipline and determination if we don't have this I'm sure we can not get away with our smoking problems even if its the best way or method on the market.
