Mesothelioma Lung Cancer Symptoms Treatment Options Surgery Chemotherapy Radiation Therapy And Prevention

Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the world (after skin cancer) and most of the causes of cancer death.
It most often affects people between the ages of fifty and seventy years of age.
It is a disease can be prevented to a large extent “as the main risk factor is smoking,” in the past, lung cancer was always more common among men but the gap has narrowed in recent years, often after increased numbers of women smokers.
Also, people who spend a lot of time in an atmosphere redolent of smoke - such as people working in bars for example - are also subject to the risk of lung cancer due to passive smoking.

Signs and symptoms:

• a chronic cough (continuing), sometimes containing the sputum (phlegm) Moah blood.
• the lack of restraint.
• unexplained loss of weight.
• pain in the chest.
• hum.
• symptoms of bronchitis or pneumonia.

And some forms of lung cancer is without symptoms until too late altogether.

Can Etkor lung cancer very slowly, the symptoms may last for many years to show, in addition to that, there are types of lung cancer does not cause any symptoms in order to be in the final stages. As a result, it can not be diagnosed with lung cancer until too late to become fully and treatment options are limited.

Your doctor if you are suspected of suffering from lung cancer, it will require you to carry out X-ray image of a - it confirms the diagnosis through the shadow of uneven lung, the doctor may also request you to send a sample of sputum to the laboratory for analysis and to make sure whether they contain cancer cells, or may refer you to a screening towns. There are, to pass a tube through the mouth into the lungs to see the towns.

Lung cancer treatment options:

There are three options for treatment and determine the nature of each cancer and exacerbated by the extent of:

• Surgery: You can remove the tumor by surgery only if the cancer had not spread to other organs, if there was no spread of, the surgeons removed the whole of one lung or a large portion of them.
• chemotherapy following: Surgery is usually the treatment of drug chemicals to eradicate the tumor, and this type of treatment is also used to target the most malignant tumors.
• radiation therapy: treatment that slows the growth of the tumor, but does not eliminate it completely, which is often used to address the micro-tumors - known Banakail Metastases which has spread from the lungs to the brain and bone and liver, often followed by radiation therapy initial chemotherapy.

Long-term prospects:

The opportunity to be the best cure for cancer for people who discover they have the disease early, which can fully heal from it.

But the outlook remains weak overall, where the remains of one person out of 20 are alive after 5 years of treatment, in cases where the disease, effective treatment will succeed only in easing and improving the quality of life, but does not prolong life expectancy.

The prevention of lung cancer:

The quit smoking, in principle, reduce the risk of lung cancer.
Research has demonstrated that former smokers are only slightly more at risk of developing the disease than non-smokers

This Informations Collected And Translated From Arabic Language By Mesothelioma Guide