By YiKeYuan cancer hospital, Peking University cancer hospital, Peking union medical college hospital and xuanwu hospital participation of experts, such as "yi heart for you, enjoy health" health lecture hall activities for patients with lung cancer recently held in Beijing. Experts say --

Lung cancer is the most easy to "gas"

Xuanwu hospital of capital medical university, director of the thoracic surgery Zhi Xiuyi 

Source: health

        Nowadays, the urban areas of cancer morbidity and mortality has been more than cardio-cerebrovascular disease in the first place. In malignant tumor death sort, whether men or women, lung cancer is the first place. When it comes to the cause of lung cancer, have to mention the word "qi". To sum up, there are four "gas" boils down to the risk factors of lung cancer.

        Tobacco smoke has hundreds of kinds of harmful substances, these substances through the stimulation of long more than 20 years, is the first onset of lung cancer, lung cancer patients more than 85% of the deaths were associated with smoking.

        Atmospheric pollution, environmental pollution is the important reason for the high incidence of lung cancer, PM2.5 exceeds bid badly region to more severe than tobacco, because PM2.5 can direct inhalation of alveolar, stay in the alveoli, even through the alveolar into the blood stream.

        Including secondhand smoke, decorate indoor air indoor air pollution, and the kitchen lampblack pollution and fuel gas. Harmful gas itself, especially in the north, heating, water heating, cooking with it.

        Angry angry, often in a bad mood people are more cancer risk, it is suitable for all of the cancer, lung cancer, too.

        If found in lung cancer early signs of it, not only can get better treatment effect, life will be improved significantly. Currently in the early detection of lung cancer is to low dose spiral CT, do at least once a year screening, can save 20% of the patients.

        Unfortunately, due to the public on the importance of early lung cancer screening is not enough, plus early symptom is not apparent, when most of the patients found that already was late. Even diagnosed, was sentenced to death doesn't mean it, because now the targeted therapy of technology can greatly improve the treatment effect, and significantly prolong the survival period. Are called targeted therapy, it is because it only kill tumor cells, not injured cells, normal like sharpshooters refers to where to play.

        Currently, for the treatment of advanced lung cancer gene, has become the important basis of cancer and genetic testing under the guidance of targeted therapy will bring more opportunities to patients. The emergence of molecular targeted drugs, the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations of advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients can choose in early diagnosis ratio targeted chemotherapy is more effective and better tolerated drug treatment, genetic testing can help doctors to distinguish patients can accept targeted therapy. Therefore, patients with late lung cancer must be genetic tests, once found that EGFR mutation positive, can adopt individualized treatment.

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