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Chemotherapy is one of the most commonly used therapeutic modalities in the treatment of cancer. Its aim is to destroy, using a variety of drugs, the cells that make up the tumor in order to achieve the reduction or elimination of the disease.

The drugs used in this treatment are called antineoplastic or chemotherapeutic drugs.These drugs reach almost all tissues of the body and that’s where they exert their action both on malignant cells and healthy ones. Due to the action of drugs on the latter may appear a series of more or less severe symptoms, known side effects.
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Not all lung cancer cases are caused by snuff, but the fact is that the vast majority of cases it is. One of the best ways to avoid it is to quit smoking or simply never start smoking.

Lung cancer is not caused only by cigarette smoking, but also because smoking pipe and joints. The years a person smoked, the amount of snuff that smokes a day and even the intensity with which inhaled smoke are factors affecting the risk of lung cancer. Furthermore, the risk is much higher when inhaling secondhand smoke, this is also cigarette smoke from a smoking another person is nearby.
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Lung cancer is the disease caused by the overgrowth of malignant cells in this organ, and if not diagnosed early can travel to other organs.

Symptoms:

The characteristic symptoms are:
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Vitamin E may reduce survival rates of cancer, and soon a new treatment significantly reduced tumor growth.

Australian researchers have identified a particular component of vitamin E known as tocotrienols (T3), which can inhibit the growth of prostate tumors.
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The deaths of patients diagnosed with lung cancer through the scanner are 20% lower than among those who are detected X-ray disease, said the National Cancer Institute U.S.

The agency posted on its website the preliminary results of a national study on the disease that took eight years and have participated in 53.000 smokers aged 55 to 74 years.
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Can fruits and vegetables help prevent lung cancer?
Eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables may help protect some smokers from lung cancer, a European study.

But researchers emphasized that quitting smoking do more to reduce the risk of “an apple a day” or with a salad for lunch.
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Mortality from lung cancer in Spanish women is increasing every year by 4%, although in men has stabilized and even begun to decline, according to Dr. Manuel has warned Domino Oncology Service, Fundación Jiménez Díaz Madrid, was quoted by Europa Press on the occasion of the European Week of Lung Cancer. While the incidence of lung cancer in women in Spain is the lowest in the world, from the 90′s, the incidence of this disease in women increases rapidly growing.

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Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in American women. An estimated 211,000 women contract the disease each year. While you can not prevent breast cancer, which can significantly reduce risk and improve your overall health, making lifestyle changes following.

Slim Down. Being overweight puts you at greater risk of developing breast cancer, especially if you have gone through menopause or have had the disease. Fat cells produce estrogen extra extra, and exposure to additional estrogen increases your risk.
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Pulmonary emphysema is one of the Many types of lung diseases, Known as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD. This COPDs Are Characterized by Their obstruction or to the Reduction of the air flow, as a result of the patient Which is Not Able to breathe Normally During The daily tasks of the company. Unfortunately, COPD is Currently ranked as the Fourth Leading Cause of Death in the moment America.At
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An antigen is a foreign substance recognized and marked by the body’s immune system to be destroyed. The antigens are found on the surface of all cells, but usually an individual’s immune system does not react against its own cells. When a cell becomes cancer, new antigens (unfamiliar to the immune system) appears on the surface of this cell and the immune system may consider these new antigens, called Tumor antigens as foreign and is able to stop or destroy these cells cancer. However, even fully operational, the immune system does not always destroy all the cancer cells.

Tumor antigens have been identified in several types of cancer, including malignant melanoma, bone cancer (osteosarcoma) and some types of gastrointestinal cancers. People with these cancers can develop antibodies against these tumor antigens, but antigens usually do not produce an adequate immune response to cancer control. In addition, antibodies may be incapable of destroying the cancer and sometimes even seems to stimulate their growth.
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