prevent lung disease

Lung Cancer Caused primarily by cigarette smoke.

Lung cancer. From the name of the disease are people already cringe to hear it. Lung cancer is one disease that has a high mortality rate on the sufferer. Even according to the World Health Organization (WHO), lung cancer is the leading cause of death in the group of cancer in both men and women.

Lung cancer is the growth of cancer cells that are not controlled in the lung tissue that can be caused by a number of environmental carcinogens, especially cigarette smoke. Most lung cancers originate from cells in the lungs, but lung cancer can also originate from cancer in other body parts that spread to the lungs.

About 90% of cases of lung cancer in men and about 70% in women are caused primarily by smoking. The more cigarettes smoked, the greater the risk for lung cancer.

The tobacco industry considers that the relationship between the number of patients with lung cancer with high consumption of cigarettes is only a coincidence. But from various studies indicate a very positive correlation, and very consistent that the only cause of lung cancer in general is the consumption of cigarettes

Only a small proportion of lung cancer (about 10% -15% in men and 5% in women) caused by or inhaled substances encountered at work. Working with asbestos, radiation, arsenic, chromate, nickel, chloromethyl ethers, mustard gas and coke oven emissions can cause lung cancer, although usually only occurs in workers who also smoked.

The role of air pollution as a cause of lung cancer is still not known for sure. Some cases occur because of exposure by radon gas in the household.

Sometimes lung cancer (particularly adenocarcinoma and alveolar cell carcinoma) occurred in people who already have lung scarring due to other lung diseases, such as tuberculosis and fibrosis.