LUNG CANCER
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death among men and women.
CAUSES
- Cigarette smoking
- Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or second-hand smoke
- Alcohol
- Tobacco chewing
- Occupational exposures to asbestos, arsenic, bischloromethyl ether, chromium, mustard gas, nickel and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
- Ionizing radiation
- Prolonged exposure to low-level radon
- Low fruit and vegetable intake during adulthood
- Environmental pollution with lead,petro chemical products
- Use of INSECTICIDE,PESTICIDE,RODENTICIDE,WEEDICIDE in agriculture
Organophosphorus Poison(Op Poison)-Malathoin, Tetron, Parathion,Chlorthoin,Diazion(Tik 20)
Organo Chlorines-Ddt,Aldrin,Endrin,Endosulfan,Benzene Hexa Chloride
Paraquat(Weedol)
Flourides(Sodium Flourides)
Zinc Phosphide
Aluminum Phosphide
TYPES OF LUNG CANCER
- Small-Cell Lung Cancer
- Non-Small-Cell Carcinomas
- Adenocarcinoma
- Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Large-Cell Carcinoma
SYMPTOMS
- Cough
- Weight loss
- Dyspnea
- Chest pain
- Hemoptysis (Coughing up blood)
- Bone pain
- Clubbing
- Fever
- Weakness
- Superior vena cava obstruction
- Dysphagia
- Wheezing and stridor
- Anorexia
- Night sweats
PREVENTION
- Don’t smoke.
- Avoid secondhand smoke
- Avoid carcinogens at work
- Avoid chemical pesticides, chemical fertilizer for farming
- Avoid herbicides
- Avoid weedicides
- Avoid rodenticide
- Eat organic fruits, vegetable
- Regular exercise
- Eating foods high in fiber
- Drinking an adequate amount of fluids
COMPLICATION
- Tracheal obstruction
- Esophageal compression with dysphagia
- Recurrent laryngeal paralysis with hoarseness
- Phrenic nerve palsy
- Sympathetic nerve paralysis
- Horner’s syndrome (enophthalmos, ptosis, miosis, and anhydrosis).
- Malignant pleural effusions can cause pain, dyspnea, or cough
- Pancoast (or superior sulcus tumor) syndromes result from local extension of a tumor growing in the apex of the lung with involvement of the eighth cervical and first and second thoracic nerves, and present with shoulder pain that characteristically radiates in the ulnar distribution of the arm
DAIGNOSIS
CT CHEST
BIOPSY
BLOOD -CBC
TREATMENT
HOMEOPATHY