Diagnosed with lung cancer, now what!? Time to do some research. Lung cancer is the number one cause of deaths in males and females. The causes, diagnosis, and treatment of lung cancer have advanced recently with new technology available to scientists and the medical profession. Lung cancer develops when the cells grow abnormally and tumors form instead of healthy lung tissue. It can take place in one or both lungs, normally the cells that line the air passages. Not all tumors are cancerous, the ones that do not spread are benign tumors. The more tumors that develop in the lungs will cause the lungs to work less efficiently. The metastatic tumors spread to other parts of the body passing through the blood stream or lymphatic system. …show more content…
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Whether lung cancer is operable or not, may well depend upon the circumstances of the patient involved; however, where certain factors do not allow for this option, other treatments may well be offered. Many factors must be taken into consideration before any treatment or operation can take place, as either may have a prominent bearing on the prognosis of the cancer patient.
Lung Cancer can be defined as an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in either one or both lungs of an organism. These abnormal cells divide and multiply to create unhealthy tissue or tumors inside of the lungs. These tumors interfere with the lungs ability to deliver oxygen to the body.
Lung cancer screening tests are recommended only for adults who have no symptoms but may be at high risk for developing lung cancer. There are three things you should ask yourself before being screened for lung cancer, have you smoked in the past 15 years? Were, or are you a heavy smoker? Are you 55-80 years old? There are three risks of doing screening tests. One is that it can be said that someone has lung cancer, when no cancer is present, which may lead to unnecessary tests, and surgeries. This is called false-positive res...
Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer within the United States with tobacco smoking being the biggest risk factor. In 2012, more than 220,000 people were diagnosed with lung cancer and approximately 150,000 died from the disease. “Lung cancer rates in the United States climbed dramatically throughout much of the 20th century, as smoking became more popular, and peaked in the 1980’s before declining in the 1990’s” (Furlow, 2014, p. 298). Screening of high risk people for lung cancer has been extending patients’ lives with early detection with the use of computed tomography (CT).
Epidemiologists had identified many important causes of cancer by the early of 1980s. Many types of cancer vary in incidence by more than an order of magnitude between different populations and every type is rare in some part of the world. Many specific causes cancer are now known, the most common are by smoking, obesity and a few oncogenic viruses, but a large proportion of global variation for common cancers such as breast, prostate, colon and rectum remains unexplained (Peto J. , 2001). According to Richard Doll and Richard Peto, pollution accounts for 2% of all cancer cases and geophysical factors account for another 3% while 80% to 90% of cancers are caused by “environmental factors”. Environmental factors are the non-genetic factors which are smoking, diet, occupational exposure to chemicals and geophysical factors (naturally occurring radiation, man-made radiation, medical drugs and radiation and pollution.
In the early stages of lung cancer it is hard to detect the cancer. The cancer is silent and can grow and develop for years undetected. When the few symptoms...
Lung cancer has been around for hundreds of years. Lung cancer is also the most common cancer. Death is almost absolute if not caught in its early stages. Lung cancer is hard to find because there aren’t symptoms in the early stages. Lung cancer found early enough can be stopped before it spread to other parts of your body. This isn’t definite because cancer can be dormant until later in life and it can be worse than before. Lung cancer can be avoided if you if you make the right choices and take right
How the distribution of health can be linked to inequality; Lung Cancer within Social Class
The scientific and medical progress of DNA as been emense, from involving the identification of our genes that trigger major diseases or the creation and manufacture of drugs to treat these diseases. DNA has many significant uses to society, health and culture of today. One important area of DNA research is that used for genetic and medical research. Our abi...
Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lung. Your lungs are two spongy organs in your chest that take in oxygen when you inhale and release carbon dioxide when you exhale.
The type of cancer I decided to research was lung cancer because it was something that was interesting to me. It interests me because I know a lot of people that have smoked and have gotten this type of cancer. A few of the leading causes to lung cancer is smoking and environmental toxins.The types of smoking products that are used that can cause this type of cancer are ones you buy from the store or illegal drugs. There are different types of environmental toxins. If these types are ingested the result could be cancerous. These toxins include and not limited to; asbestos which is a type of insulation used in houses, carcinogens; toxins in cigarette smoke, and benzene; a toxin that is a natural part of crude oil and gasoline, etc.
When you are diagnosed with lung cancer you are more likely to be diagnosed in your 60’s or 70’s. Two out of three people are diagnosed with lung cancer in their 60 or older, less than 2 percent are younger than 45 years old. 20 percent of men are more likely to get lung cancer than women and women are 10 percent less likely to get lung cancer. More than 430,000 people today are diagnosed with lung cancer. Lung cancer has many different stages from stage one to stage four, the survival rate for stage one lung cancer is 52 percent and live 5 years after being diagnosed with stage one lung cancer, people who are diagnosed with lung cancer during stage two have a survival rate of 30 percent, people who become diagnosed with stage
My father suddenly developed a deep, scary cough unlike anything I had ever heard before. It wasn’t the kind of cough that comes with an ordinary cold. It was the kind of cough that makes anyone who hears it, even strangers who don’t know you nervous. It was a warning. An omen. We just didn’t know it yet. The cough persisted for months, and after an incorrect diagnosis of pneumonia, we finally learned that it was lung cancer.
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Many people may have heard of lung cancer but do not know the specifics. The cancer comes in a few forms of which are all tumors. According to U·X·L Encyclopedia of Diseases and Disorder, “Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of malignant cells in one or both lungs. There are two major types of lung cancer, small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)” (pg. 670). Non-small cell lung cancer accounts for 85 percent of all forms of lung cancer. Small cell lung cancer follows with 10 to 15 percent and less than 5 percent are carcinoid tumors. Normal symptoms of