Lung cancer awareness month is celebrated all over the world on the month of November each and every year. Lung cancer awareness month gives the opportunity to raise community awareness of lung cancer and know the sign and symptoms of the disease.
Do you know? 15 out of 1 person in America diagnosed with lung cancer.
Lung cancer also recognized as lung carcinoma. The two general types of lung cancer- Small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC), non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC).
Use of tobacco products and also getting exposure by smoke the risk is very high. Smoking leads to cause harm your lungs and other body organs (mouth, food pipe, lungs, and through oxygen and regulate into entire body area) on the same way badly.
Try to quit smoking, if you find hard to give up for this take an immediate medical assistance or try to go for counseling, nicotine replacement therapy.
It is not good for any individual who smokes, rather than this; the fact is you are as well saving another person’s life those are very close to your life- family, colleagues, friends, and pets.
Each puff of Cigarette smoke contains harmful chemicals more than 4000 majorities of them are carcinogenic– butane, acetone, ammonia, toluene, methane, nicotine, methanol, ammonia, carbon monoxide, DDT (insecticide), sulfuric acid, stearic acid, methoprene, hydrogen cyanide, Vinyl chloride, arsenic, tar, cadmium, benzene, formaldehyde (preserving dead bodies), and naphthalene.
We need to bring some Awareness in the society
- Lung cancer is one of the deadliest cancer among all known cancer.
- Lung cancer -160,360: Prostate cancer– 28,170: Colon cancer– 51,690: Breast cancer– 39,920. (Death per year).
- Lung cancer is the least funded.
- Cancer burden all over the world. North America- 95, South America- 8, Europe- 42, Oceania-78, Asia-6, Africa-2.
- Continuing tobacco and smoking consumption lead the cause of (80-85%) lung cancer in a human.
Quit smoking benefits
- You will save yourself from many disease and infections. Smokers are more prone to illness and virus-related diseases.
- You will seem to be younger– smoking cause circulation related problems and also depleted oxygen level within your body. An earlier premature aging symptom appears.
- You will live your life with full energy and live longer.
- Either you can save lots of money. A packet of the cigarette may cost you around $5.56 to $13. That’s mean you spending almost $2100 per year.
- You can save your family members too which is mostly occurring by second-hand smoking.
Important Facts
- Male smokers are 23 times more likely to get Lung Cancer compare than a female. Female smokers are 13 times more likely to get Lung Cancer.
- Every 2.3 minutes someone is diagnosed with lung cancer.
- One cigarette cut 11 minutes off your life.
- Increase the risk of diabetes, heart attack, and stroke.
- Smoking cigarettes more addictive than a heroin and cocaine.
- Smoking cigarettes put your baby at risk with certain birth defects.
- Children are twice as to be expected smoke if their parents smoke.
- Five to six-year survival rate.
- Lung cancer often spread all through other parts of the body which is called metastasis.
Diagnose (know the symptoms)
- The appearance of blood into your cough or spit (phlegm).
- Pain in Chest, shoulder, and back.
- Shortness of breath.
- Loss of appetite, weight loss, feeling weakness & exhaustion.
- Occurring respiratory infections over and over and getting a fever.
- A cough that does not leave or gets worse.
- Difficulty in swallowing
- Hoarseness and swollen lymph nodes.
- Headache & bone pain.
- Detect through Tissue biopsy, sputum cytology, and through medical imaging.
Prevention & Cure
- The early stage of lung cancer can be cured by taking an immediate action and go for a medical assistance.
- Quit smoking is a better way to prevent this own self.
- Follow no smoking campaigns.
- Increase awareness in schools, home, through media, and community.
- Drugs and immunotherapy.
- Last stage cancer may be cured with surgery, pulmonary lobectomy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.
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Conclusion
Smoking causes lung cancer, both in smokers and non-smokers (those are exposed to secondhand smoke). Quitting can considerably lower the risk of lung cancer and the risk of dying from lung cancer drops by half.