Lung Cancer: Who is at risk?

Lung Cancer: Who is at risk? 

 Previous studies have found that several of the pathogenic factor of lung cancer - mostly relating to cigarettes. 

 Cigarettes: Smoking can cause lung cancer. Tobacco's harmful substances (carcinogenic substances) will damage lung cells. Over a certain period of time, those who have been damaged cells may become cancer. Smoking will lead to lung cancer, likely to start smoking with age, cigarette smoking for a long time the number of daily smoking, smoking-related deep into many. Stop smoking can greatly reduce the incidence of lung cancer. 

 Cigar and pipe: cigars and pipes get lung cancer than non-smokers have a higher risk. Draw a number of years, the daily number of cigars and pipes, suction of the many deep, these risk factors are the causes of lung cancer. Even those who smoke cigars and pipe tobacco is not the smoke will continue to increase into the lung, oral and other cancers from occurring. 

 Smoking environment: exposure to the smoking environment will increase the chance of lung cancer. Exposed to someone smoking environment or exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is called involuntary smoking. 

 Radon: Radon is an invisible, odorless and tasteless, in the natural soil and rock in the radiation gas. It can damage the lungs caused by the occurrence of lung cancer. Mine workers may be exposed to radon, as well as in some countries, radon can be found in the house. Those who are already exposed to radon gas in the people, smoking may be more if there will be a doubling of the risk of lung cancer. Foreign owners can buy a hardware device to measure their home radon levels inside the number, the current measurement of radon in the home such equipment easy and inexpensive. If the radon problem corrected, and the risk of subsequent left. 

 Asbestos: Asbestos is a group of minerals exist in nature, fiber, often use in certain industries. Asbestos fibers easily toppling small particles floating in air, adhesion in the clothes. When those particles are inhaled into the lungs, they enter the lung damage lung cells, increase the risk of lung cancer. Studies have shown substantial exposure to asbestos in workers exposed to asbestos than not the workers, have a high risk of lung cancer 3-4 times. Such exposure is commonly found in the following types of industries, such as: shipbuilding, asbestos mining, asbestos manufacturing, insulation materials manufacturing industry, as well as repair of the brakes. Work in these places and smoking workers the opportunity to redouble their lung cancer, asbestos workers should use their employers to provide protective equipment, in accordance with recommended codes of practice and safety procedures to work. 

 Pollution: The researchers have lung cancer and find a correlation between air pollution, for example: the products of combustion of diesel and other petrochemical raw materials. This, however, the precise relationship between not yet fully clear, this kind of research has been conducted. 

 Pulmonary disease: some sort of lung diseases such as tuberculosis will increase opportunities for people to get lung cancer. Tuberculosis scar easily become the site of lung cancer. 

 History: Once people too lung cancer lung cancer than those who did not win, the more prone to a second lung cancer. Was diagnosed as lung cancer after quitting smoking can prevent the occurrence of lung cancer the second time. 

 Researchers continue to study the etiology of lung cancer and look for methods of prevention. But we know the best methods and the prevention of lung cancer are to quit smoking, stop smoking the sooner the better, and will never be too late to quit smoking immediately. 

 ~ The best way to prevent lung cancer is to quit smoking or never started smoking ~