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Lung cancer is one of the most dangerous and mortality figures leaving are overwhelming. And while it affects both men and women are the last ones have a real advantage in this problem.

800 thousand men and 300 women die each year due to contracted lung cancer. This was revealed by the Spanish Association of People Affected by Lung Cancer (Aeacap), which has been presented in Valencia in order to inform and sensitize people about the dangers of this disease and its underlying causes .

The event was attended Aeacap presentation of the Minister of Health, Manuel Cervera, Sangonzalo Navy psychologist, Dr. and representative of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) Dolores Isla, and the doctor representative to the Spanish Group for Lung Cancer ( GECP) Massuti Bartomeu.

Aeacap already has 120 members. Its president, Bernard Gaspar announced that the intention is to be made ​​and information sessions begin with a health school which provide free workshops for people to leave the snuff and Educate the public about the dangers of smoking.

The lung cancer is a disease that attacks the respiratory system of humans. More specifically and as I said the name of the disease affects the lungs to the organs that store the subject needs oxygen to breathe.

Some of the causes of cancer are smoking, prolonged exposure to carcinogens, genetic predisposition, smoking marijuana, sucking talcum powder, air pollution and excess or deficiency of vitamin A. These factors can lead to malignant cells individually. Anyway, in most cases it is a multiplicity of factors.

Those who have cough or pain in the chest area in addition to releasing blood from the mouth, snoring, having both face and swollen neck, feeling short of breath and make a whistle on your breathing will be eligible to receive adequate treatment for lung cancer .

Generally, the disease is detected when it is well advanced. The diagnostic methods used are radiologic studies, CT scans and positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, sputum cytology, bronchoscopy, mediastinoscopy, bone marrow biopsy and blood tests.

While lung cancer is treatable with surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, only 15% of patients survive.

Cancer is one of the scourges that hit most societies around the world. However, recently conducted a massive investigation in which thousands of professionals around the world, by which it concluded that those who eat lots of vitamin B6 have less risk of cancer disease.

The most shocking thing about this discovery is that the consumption of the vitamin above helps smokers to be free from lung cancer. The low probability of contracting the disease is up to 50 percent, a truly shocking number.

Vitamin B6 can be taken as tablets by different multivitamins, however, is present in regular diet of people that were seen in meat, fish, nuts and other similar foods.

In addition it should be noted that consumption of vitamin B6 is not only important to lower the likelihood of any cancer disease, but also serves to maintain strong and undamaged DNA.

With regard to lung cancer, specialists claimed that, despite taking vitamins help to lower risk, then the best option to escape suffering is to quit. Snuff consumption is the main cause of lung cancer deaths, and there is no doubt that vitamin is strong enough to stop the damage caused by snuff and nicotine.

Just recently the University of California brought us good news about the broccoli, a vegetable that makes a little more time proved to be good for the heart. The fact is that broccoli helps prevent respiratory diseases, and today we have similar stories.

This time the news comes from the John Hopkins School of Medicine, where a group of researchers conducted a study that relates to the broccoli to the prevention of lung cancer published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Studying the lungs of 39 patients, researchers found that lung cancer can be prevented by adding broccoli to your diet, which helps protect NFR2 gene activity, which produces a protein that regulates many of the processes that allow us to eliminate toxins from the lungs.

By adding broccoli to feed the defenses of the patients returned to normal and the body’s antioxidative activity was restored to baseline, which ranks this plant as a resource to draw upon to prevent lung cancer is in the case of non-smokers or addicted to snuff consumption.

TREATMENTS OF LUNG CANCER

The prognosis and choice of treatment depend on the extent to which stage the cancer, tumor size or type of lung cancer.

The surgery involves removing the tumor and some tissue from the surrounding area and is often used in the early stages of the disease

Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells.

Radiation therapy using high energy X-rays to kill cancer cells and shrink the tumor. Read the rest of this entry »

SYMPTOMS OF LUNG CANCER

People who suffer

People over fifty years of age who have smoked cigarettes for many years.
The incidence of lung cancer among women in general has increased, which is clearly attributable to the increased number of women who smoke.

Symptoms

Cough or chest pain does not go away and may be accompanied by expectoration.
A whistle in breathing, shortness of breath.
Coughing or spitting up blood.
Hoarseness or swelling of the face and neck.
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WHAT IS IT?

The lungs are a pair of organs that give oxygen to the body and expel carbon dioxide, a waste product produced by the body’s cells. The bronchi, meanwhile, are tubes through which inspired air reaches from the mouth to the lungs are divided into other smaller and smaller tubes, called bronchioles, to form the alveoli, which is where exchange occurs of venous blood gases.

Lung cancer is caused by overgrowth of malignant cells in this organ, and if not diagnosed early can move to other organs of the body. Read the rest of this entry »

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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