Posts Tagged ‘Lung Cancer’
Vitamin B6 reduces cancer risk
The 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 consume plenty of vitamin B6 have less risk of a cancer illness .
The most striking finding is that the consumption of the vitamin above helps smokers to be free from lung cancer . The low chance of contracting the disease occurs up to 50 percent, a really impressive number.
Vitamin B6 can be taken as tablets through different multivitamins , however, is present in the regular diet of those already listed in meat, fish, nuts and other similar foods.
It should also be noted that the intake of vitamin B6 is not only important to lower the likelihood of some type of cancer disease , but also serves to maintain strong and undamaged DNA.
With regard to lung cancer, experts claimed that, despite taking vitamins help to decrease the risk of contracting it, the best option for the disorder is not quit. Snuff consumption is the main cause of lung cancer deaths, and no doubt that any vitamin will be strong enough to stop the damage caused by snuff and nicotine.
Lung cancer, the most scourge for women 60 years
One of the most terrible scourges to human health is the cigarette . This service attracts more and more people, and when walking down the street is inevitable to see many people smoking. Some buy this “habit” because they say it calms the nerves, others simply because they like, and others because to make them more powerful or more presence.
However, no one is aware of the terrible effects that smoking has on the human body. Does the principal? Lung cancer, of course. This is a disease that more lives are collected worldwide, and worst of all is that his work on the smoker is very slow, gradually destroying it.
For many years, the highest number of deaths from lung cancer was in men. But now that has reversed, and women are more prone to dying from the disease. In Europe there have been studies that show that the number of cases among females has increased at twice the previous years.
And the reason is actually very simple to identify: the cigarette. Smokers are started with the habit from a young age. Usually, they begin college age but in many cases you can see smoke in high school adolescents.
According to research, the biggest risk for women smokers reach age 60. At that age the body is extremely deteriorated due to snuff and soar into the stratosphere the chances of dying from lung cancer . A thought.
Genes linked to lung cancer
Three genes are implicated in the genesis of lung cancer, apparently found on human chromosome 14, and two of them are involved in fetal development of the lungs. This was affirmed by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York County (United States).
In this study the three genes involved (TTF1, NKX2-8 and PAX9) would be activated and would cause a pattern of fetal gene expression, causing abnormal proliferation of cells that give rise to the tumor.
Apparently, the mutations of these genes is common in some types of lung cancer. The mechanism by which these genes are activated in the fetal stage of growth in the adult is not known exactly, but if you know that if you disable these genes could halt tumor growth.
The most important thing is that the tumor may regress if these genes are turned off. Although this is still under study and will take years before it can be applied directly as a treatment for advanced lung cancer.
Lung Cancer Increased in 2020
Are two curves diverge: while lung cancer mortality in Spain and most other EU countries lower among men (the exception is Portugal), among women not only rises, but is accelerating. Specifically, between 1990 and 2007, a spokesman for the Spanish Health Ministry said that the lung cancer mortality in men decreased by 19% in the EU, and 4% in Spain. In contrast, among women increased by 39% in the EU, a rate that Spain doubles and reaches 73%. 20% of women smoke, a figure that increases slightly in each National Health Survey.
Compared with what is, by far, the first female cancer, both incidence and mortality, “the breast, is that in the EU, the mortality has fallen by 9% between 1990 and 2007, and Spain 24%. The projection of what will happen in Spain seems clear. With the delay due to the late entry of women to smoking, the country follows the same path traveled by U.S. and northern Europe, where lung cancer is already the leading cause of death in women, ahead of breast (in large studies comparing these two women with colorectal cancer, which are the first, and in men breast changes the prostate). For example, this is the case in Denmark since 1996. In Hungary the case since 2005 or so. And if it confirms the trend, and there is no indication that it will not be confirmed, the projections are that Spain will occur after 2020, indicates Massutà Bartholomew, secretary of the Spanish Group for Lung Cancer (GEPC). Read the rest of this entry »
Lung Cancer : Diagnosis
Can early diagnosis?
At present there is no evidence that meet the requirements to be considered for early diagnosis of lung cancer in the general population. In 2006 published a study that evaluated the role of CT in smokers as a method of early detection. Although initial results were encouraging, did not increase survival. However, due to the frequency of occurrence of this tumor research efforts to get them do not stop.
How is it diagnosed?
The first step is the realization of the history. It is essential to know the symptoms for the patient comes to the consultation and to investigate whether or not smoking, the type of work done, family history of disease and personal history of another tumor. The second step is the realization of the physical examination of the patient for signs and symptoms that could correspond to the Lung Cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
Lung Cancer : Symptoms
In the early stages of the disease, lung cancer, does not produce any symptoms or are too specific. The diagnosis at this stage is usually accidental, that is diagnosed by tests that are performed to discover other health problems. In most cases, lung cancer is diagnosed when symptoms require the patient to seek medical advice. Due to the fact that the symptoms are delayed, often lung cancer is diagnosed in advanced stages.
The symptoms depend on the location and extent of the tumor. The most common are: Read the rest of this entry »
Lung Cancer : What causes it?
A risk factor is any agent that increases the risk of developing a particular disease, ie, a person exposed to this factor has more chances of getting the disease.
Several factors that are related with lung cancer. These include:
Snuff: between 80-90% of lung cancers occur in smokers, or who have recently quit, but no concrete evidence that smoking is associated with a specific histological subtype, but tends to relate more to the with squamous cell carcinoma and small cell cancer, and less frequently with adenocarcinoma. Smokers have a risk of 10 to 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer (according to the number of cigarettes smoked per day) than non-smokers. The use of snuff light does not change the risk of the disease. Read the rest of this entry »
What is Lung Cancer?
Our body consists of organs and these in turn by a group of cells, which are divided on a regular basis to replace aging or dead and thereby maintain the integrity and smooth functioning of various organs. This process is regulated by a number of mechanisms that tell the cell when to start to divide and when to remain stable. Read the rest of this entry »
Discovered the head of lung cancer in nonsmokers
The lungs are one of the areas most affected by cancer and we know how to be a smoker goes to affect the possibility of getting sick.
But unfortunately, even for those who have never lit a cigarette, there is also a risk of developing lung cancer. Sure, of 15-20 times lower than those who smoke but, nevertheless, among the sick is a tangible 53% women and 15% of male non-smokers. Read the rest of this entry »
Lung cancer may have genetic causes
Smoking is the most frequent cause of lung cancers, but there is a significant number of people developing the disease too, having never smoked. Even if another risk factor for non-smokers is passive smoking, there is another cause that can cause cancer, without there ever having been exposed to tobacco smoke.
A percentage of 30% of patients with lung cancer, it would be for a genetic cause. To find U.S. researchers who have found genetic variations responsible for these cases of lung cancer. Read the rest of this entry »