CAUSES:
lung cancer
DANIEL SERRANO,
GUSTAVO MACIAS
WHAT IS IT?
 Lung cancer is a group of diseases resulting
from the malignant growth of cells of the
respiratory tract, in particular lung tissue, and
one of the most frequent cancers worldwide.
 Lung cancer usually originates from epithelial
cells and can lead to metastasis and infiltration
to other tissues of the body.
SYMPTOM:
 Smoking causes most cases of lung cancer,
both in direct smokers and in secondhand  A recent cough that does not go away.
smoke.  Cough with blood, even in small amounts.
 When you inhale cigarette smoke, which is full
of cancer-causing substances (carcinogens),  Shortness of breath.
alterations in the lung tissue occur almost  Chest pain.
immediately.
 Lung cancer also occurs in people who never  Hoarseness.
smoked and who never had a prolonged  Thinning without proposing it.
exposure to secondhand smoke. In those
 Bone pain.
cases, perhaps, there is no obvious cause of.
 Headache.
PREVENTION:
 Do not smoke.
 Stop smoking.
TIPS OF CANCER:
 Avoid second-hand smoke.
 Small cell lung cancer
 Do a radon test in your house
 Non-small cell lung cancer.
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 Avoid carcinogens at work.
Heat destroys lung cancer cells. He was a smoker until a year before his death.
 Follow a diet with lots of fruits and vegetables.  Radiation therapy or radiation therapy, delivers high- However, the particular form of lung cancer that caused
energy x-rays that can kill cancer cells. It has many his death is related to exposure to asbestos, which
 Exercise most days of the week.
uses in lung cancer: involves an increased risk for smokers.
1. As a primary treatment.
2. To reduce the size of the tumor
TREATMENTS:
before surgery.
 Surgery, with the removal of the entire lobe
3. After surgery to remove cancer
where the tumor is located, is the primary
cells that may have remained in
treatment for patients with early stage cancer
the treated área.
who have a good general health status. The
4. To treat lung cancer that has
goal of surgery is to completely eliminate all
spread to the brain or other
tumor cells and thus cure the disease.
parts of the body.
 Lobectomy, the removal of an entire lung lobe,
 Chemotherapy involves drugs that are toxic to
is an accepted procedure to eliminate cancer
cancer cells. These drugs are usually given by direct
when the lungs function well. The risk of
injection into the vein or through a catheter inserted
mortality is 3 to 4 percent and tends to be higher
into a large vein.
in older patients.
 Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and microwave
ablation (AMO) use imaging guidance to place a
needle through the skin into a tumor inside the
breast. In the ARF, high frequency electric currents
are passed through an electrode, creating a small
hot region. In AMO, microwaves are created