Lung Cancer Facts

When the lungs are growing abnormal cells that are out of control this is the start of lung cancer. Most of the time when a person smokes it goes with lung cancer. Early signs of the cancer are not common.

Symptoms

When lung cancer is diagnosed a quarter of the people will have no symptoms. It is usually found when a doctor is looking at an X-ray for another reason. Three quarter

s of the remaining people that are diagnosed had a few symptoms. The primary tumor is affected so there are some symptoms as the cancer spreads to other organs in the body; hormones are disturbed, the blood, and other systems.

Some of the symptoms of lung cancer are as follows:

• Blood in the cough

• Phlegm is rusty-colored

• Tired

• Loss of weight

• Respiratory infections that keep occurring

• Breath is short

• Any new wheezing

• Hoarseness when speaking

Metastatic cancer

When people are diagnosed with lung cancer around 30-40 percent of them will have signs or symptoms of metastatic cancer. The symptoms depend upon where the cancer is located and the extent of it. Some of the symptoms are as follows:

• Brain, bones and liver start showing the spread of lung cancer

• Skin turns yellow with the eyes which indicates metastatic lung cancer

• Ribs, thigh bones, and vertebrae have pain

• Seizures, problems seeing, and one side of body is weak means cancer is in the brain

There are indirect effects when cancer is growing known as paraneoplastic syndrome. The symptoms for this are as follows:

• Fingertips start forming new bones

• Blood calcium is showing high levels

• Blood clots

• Blood is showing low sodium levels

Diagnosis

To properly diagnosis lung cancer is rather hard. The following tests will be conducted:

• Biopsy of tumor tissue in lung

• Mucus is examined

• Positron Emission Tomography scan

• Bronchoscopy

• Mediastinoscopy

• CT scan of brain

• Bone scan

• Thoracentesis

• Medical history

Treatment

There are a number of ways for treating lung cancer. It depends upon the growth and spread of the cancer as to which treatment is best. The treatments are as follows:

• Surgery for lung cancer

• Chemotherapy

• Radiation

• Medication

• Non small cell

• Small cell by stage

Prevention

In order to lower risks of getting other cancers there is some prevention that can be done. When doing prevention the cancer risks are lowered and then numbers become lower in a new case.

Risk factor is when something will increase the chance of cancer. Protective factor means chances of developing cancer are lowered since you are not doing things that could cause it to begin with.

Some known ways of preventing cancer are:

• Eating habits are changed

• Lifestyle is changed

• Medications being taken that will treat precancerous conditions or will keep cancer from initially starting

• Avoiding anything that is known for causing cancer

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Lung Cancer Facts