Prevention of Lung Cancer

P C Yang; L B Marks

Prevention of Lung Cancer

P C Yang¹ and L B Marks^2*

¹Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China

²Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, North Carolina, USA

*Corresponding Author:: P C Yang
Department of Internal Medicine,
National Taiwan University Hospital,
Taiwan, Republic of China
E-mail:pcyang@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw

Received Date: November 1, 2021; Accepted Date: November 15, 2021; Published Date: November 22, 2021

Citation: Yang PC, Marks LB (2021) Prevention of Lung Cancer. J Med Phys and Appl Sci. Vol.6 No.6:17.

Copyright: © 2021 Yang PC, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Cancer is when cells in the body variation and produce out of control. Your body is made up of small building blocks called cells. Regular cells grow when your body needs them and die when your body does not need them any longer. Lung cancer is cancer that frights in the cells that make up the lungs. Several types of cancer, such as breast or kidney, can spread to the lungs. The cancer is not called lung cancer. This is because cancer is named for and treatment is created on the site of the original tumour. Example, if breast cancer spreads to the lungs, it will be treated as metastatic breast cancer, not lung cancer.

Keywords

Serum ferritin lung cancer; Non-small cell lung cancer; small cell lung cancer; Biological therapy; Radiotherapy; Immunotherapy

Description

Magnetic cancer is made up of abnormal cells that produce even though your body doesn't need them. In most cancers, the abnormal cells grow to procedure a lump or mass called a tumour. If cancer cells are in the body long enough, they can grow into close areas. They can even spread to other parts of the body. The lungs are sponge similar organs in your chest. When you breathe air in, it goes into your lungs finished your windpipe. The trachea divisions into tubes called bronchi, which enter the lungs. These divisions into smaller branches called bronchioles. Lung cancer is distributed into two main types: nonsmall cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. The lung cancer frequently spreads to be the lymph nodes in the centre of the chest. Lung cancer can also spread to the lymph nodes in the lower neck. In its later stages, lung cancer could spread (metastasize) to distant parts of the body, brain, or bones [1,2].

Cancer prevention taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. By preventing cancer, the quantity of new cases of cancer in a population is lowered. This wills lesser number of deaths produced by cancer. To prevent new cancers from early, scientists look at risk factors and protective factors anything that increases your chance of developed cancer is known as a cancer risk factor; anything that decreases your chance of developed cancer is known as a cancer protective factor. Leaving tobacco, or not smoking in the first place, is one of the best ways to decrease your cancer risk and recover your overall health [3-9].

.• Quit smoking: lung cancer was a properly rare disease. Its dramatic rise is mostly due to the increase in smoking rates among people in the United States. In fact, it’s estimated that around 90 percent of lung cancers today can be related to smoking or tobacco smoke.

• Limit radiation to your chest: High-energy radiation, such as X-rays, gamma rays, and other types of radioactive waves, can injury your DNA and increase your risk of cancer. Certain health procedures can reason cell damage in your lungs that may lead to cancer. This includes procedures such as a chest x-ray, CT scan, a pet scan.

• Get regular exercise: Physical activity can reduce lung cancer risk by as much as 23-30 percent for women and 20 to 50 percent for men. The additional exercise, the more appears to lower your risk.

Conclusion

Lung cancer is the important cause of death over the world and the only chance of therapy for patients affected from this kind of cancer is surgical resection. This is mostly due to the element that some factors are involved in lung cancer progressing and development and to time the diagnostic methods accessible for an early and efficient detection are not sufficient.