Mainly, there are three types of treatment and its use will depend on the type of lung cancer and the stage where you are.
If you are in an early stage can remove the tumor quirúrgicamente.Ahora if it has already spread is used to radiotherapy (high energy X rays) or a combination thereof and chemotherapy (drugs effective against cancer cells).
Treatment is essential because a patient with untreated lung cancer has an average survival of six months.
Symptoms
Lung cancer tends to be very quiet, so that symptoms appear when the disease is at an advanced stage. These are:
* Chronic cough.
* Coughing up blood.
* Obstruction of the bronchi.
(more…)
Fruits and vegetables of all kinds can rescue her from the ravages of lung cancer but the best are those rich in beta carotene, an orange pigment in carrots isolated 150 years ago.
Beta carotene is concentrated in orange vegetables and green (the green chlorophyll hides the yellow), and the darker the color, the higher the beta carotene. I recommend reading the article (lung cancer and deficiency of vegetables)
This substance, which counteracts the lung cáncer has been described as the morning after pill because it cancels cancer in animals fed a potent carcinogen.
In humans, the probability of getting lung cancer is reduced by 40% to 70% in regular consumers of beta-carotene, as indicated by almost all epidemiological studies conducted over the past ten years.
A typical study is that of the State University of New York at Buffalo. He showed that eating vegetables rich in beta carotene more than once a week, significantly decreased the risk of cancer, when compared with the risk of people who did not eat these plants.
Foods to prevent lung cancer: any green leafy vegetables, the darker the better, any fruit or vegetable orange, the more intense the color, better, carrots, broccoli, spinach, cabbage, dark green lettuce, cabbage kale, Brussels sprouts, pumpkin, sweet potato, green tea, beans, low fat milk.
Foods that may prolong survival: All vegetables, especially broccoli and tomato.
Do not hesitate a moment, if you are a smoker or former smoker if he lives or shares space with smokers or have any reason to believe that it is vulnerable to lung cancer, treat yourself to eat fruits and vegetables every day, especially carrots, broccoli and other green leafy vegetables.
Surprisingly, an additional carrot a day, half cup of orange vegetables and dark green, a piece of fruit or fruit juice all or more than once a week, could be the difference between getting and not get lung cancer .
Indeed, this small amount appears to reduce by half or more the chance of contracting the disease.
It also appears that eating vegetables after he produces helps fight cancer by reducing the rate of proliferation and prolonging life.
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.
According to statistics involving all the world, lung cancer is the most kills: even more than breast, prostate, colon, skin and all the others together.
Unfortunately, often the diagnosis is made too late, and for this main reason about 85 percent of people who become ill end up dying from this cause within a period not exceeding five years.
In the United States, for example, and according to the Lung Cancer Alliance, this type of cancer last year has killed more than 160,300 people, or about 440 a day. For this reason, it is necessary to emphasize the need to prevent: and one of the main ways is to avoid smoking, or who already have a bad habit, you stop.
This need is also based on another key finding: according to the National Cancer Institute of the United States, 90 percent of deaths occur in cases in which smoking is directly responsible for the emergence and development of the lung disease.
For this reason, and although researchers and scientists from around the world try to find better ways to detect lung cancer and to establish the genetic warning signs or markers that people have a greater chance of developing this disease, doctors say snuff action against the principal and have proved but only effective weapon against this cancer so deadly.
If the diagnosis is cancer, your doctor will want to know the arena (stage or extent) of the disease. Staging was performed to determine whether the cancer has spread and, if so, to what parts of the body.
Lung cancer often spreads to the brain or bones. Knowing the stage (stage) of the disease helps the doctor plan lung cancer treatment. Some of the tests used to determine whether the cancer has spread are:
CT scans or CT scan. A computer linked to an X-ray machine creates a series of detailed pictures of areas inside the body.
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). A powerful magnet linked to a computer produces detailed pictures of areas inside the body.
Radionuclide studies. The scans with radionuclides (radioactive isotopes) can show whether cancer has spread to other organs including the liver. The patient swallows or receives an injection of a mildly radioactive substance. A machine (scanner) measures and records the level of radioactivity in certain organs to reveal abnormal areas.
To help find the cause of the symptoms, the doctor evaluates the person’s medical history, your history of smoking, exposure to environmental substances or craft and family history of cancer. The doctor also performs a physical exam and may order chest x-rays and other tests. If lung cancer is suspected, sputum cytology (microscopic examination of cells in a sample of phlegm from the lungs that comes from a deep cough) is a simple test that can be useful for detecting lung cancer. To confirm the presence of lung cancer, the doctor needs to examine lung tissue. A biopsy is the removal of a small sample of tissue for examination under a microscope by a pathologist and can show if a person has cancer. Several procedures can be used to obtain this tissue.
Bronchoscopy. The doctor puts a bronchoscope (a thin tube, light) by mouth or nose until you reach the windpipe to look into the airways. Through this tube, the doctor can collect cells or small tissue samples.
Needle aspiration. A needle is inserted into the tumor through the chest to remove a tissue sample.
Thoracentesis. Using a needle, the doctor removes a sample of fluid around the lungs for cancer cells.
Thoracotomy. Sometimes surgery is needed to open the chest to diagnose lung cancer. This procedure is a major operation that is performed in the hospital.
Researchers have discovered several causes of lung cancer and most are related to the use of snuff.
Cigarettes. Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. Harmful substances, called carcinogens in snuff, damage cells in the lungs. Over time, damaged cells may become cancerous. The probability that a smoker will develop lung cancer is affected by the age at which smoking began, by the time the person has smoked, the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the force with which the smoker inhales. Quitting smoking greatly reduces a person’s risk of developing lung cancer.
Cigars and pipes. People who smoke cigars and pipes have a higher risk of lung cancer than nonsmokers. The number of years a person smokes, the number of pipes or cigars smoked per day and the force with which the person inhales all affect the risk of developing lung cancer. Even the smoking of cigars and pipe do not inhale are at increased risk of lung cancer, mouth and other types.
Snuff smoke in the environment. The possibility of developing lung cancer increases with exposure to tobacco snuff in the air: the smoke in the air when someone else is smoking. The snuff smoke exposure in the environment is called second hand smoking or passive smoking or involuntary.
Radon. Radon is an invisible radioactive gas, odorless and tasteless, that occurs naturally in soil and rocks. It can damage the lungs, which can lead to lung cancer. People who work in mines may be exposed to radon and, in some parts of the country, radon in homes also. Smoking increases the risk of further lung cancer in people who already have the risk from exposure to radon. A kit for home use to measure radon levels in homes is for sale at most hardware stores. The home test for radon is relatively easy to use and not expensive. After correcting the problem of radon, the risk disappears completely.
The best way to escape dietary lung cancer, whether you smoked or not, is to eat plenty of vegetables, especially those rich in carotenoids, including beta-carotene.
These include carrots, broccoli, spinach, dark green lettuce, pumpkin, sweet potato.
If you smoked or still smoke, the council is much more important, it is vital to eat at least half a cup of vegetables, dark green or deep orange every day once you have stopped smoking. These foods can act positively during the long, slow march toward lung cancer, which lasts for ten years or more after stopping smoking.
The plant chemicals can slow the promotion of cancer and tumor formation.
It also seems a good idea to drink tea, especially green, and eating more legumes, although not proven completely ineffective.
If you have been diagnosed with lung cancer, add to your diet more of anticancer agents by eating more vegetables, particularly tomatoes, broccoli and other rich in carotenoids like beta carotene.
The lycopene and lutein, to help your body fight cancer and prolong life.
© 2010 Lung Cancer Information. All right reserved.
