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Last Updated: 9 years ago• Featured Tip
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There's no sure way to prevent lung cancer, but you can reduce your risk if you:
1. Don't smoke. If you've never smoked, don't start. Talk to your children about not smoking so that they can understand how to avoid this major risk factor for lung cancer. Begin conversations about the dangers of smoking with your children early so that they know how to react to peer pressure.
2. Stop smoking. Stop smoking now. Quitting reduces your risk of lung cancer, even if you've smoked for ...more
1. Don't smoke. If you've never smoked, don't start. Talk to your children about not smoking so that they can understand how to avoid this major risk factor for lung cancer. Begin conversations about the dangers of smoking with your children early so that they know how to react to peer pressure.
2. Stop smoking. Stop smoking now. Quitting reduces your risk of lung cancer, even if you've smoked for ...more
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Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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Lungs are the most important organ of our body that has the responsibility of taking in the oxygen and releasing out carbon dioxide. When cancer develops in it, the entire body gets imbalanced. Lung cancer leads to more death than any other type of cancer, which is why identifying the symptoms and knowing the causes are instrumental in obtaining a timely diagnosis as well as in prevention of this disease.
Symptoms of Lung Cancer
In the early stages:
Persistent coughing...more
Symptoms of Lung Cancer
In the early stages:
Persistent coughing...more
Last Updated: 6 years ago• Featured Tip
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Lungs are the most important organ of our body that has the responsibility of taking in the oxygen and releasing out carbon dioxide. When cancer develops in it, the entire body gets imbalanced. Lung cancer leads to more death than any other type of cancer, which is why identifying the symptoms and knowing the causes are instrumental in obtaining a timely diagnosis as well as in prevention of this disease.
Symptoms of Lung Cancer
In the early stages:
Persistent coughing...more
Symptoms of Lung Cancer
In the early stages:
Persistent coughing...more
Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Pulmonary diseases are some of the most commonly experienced health conditions all over the world. Millions of people suffer due to various causes including genetics, smoking, pollutants and infection. Now lungs are one of the most important and complex organs of the body. They are the apparatus through which oxygen enters and carbon dioxide gets expelled.
Lungs expand and contract on a constant basis to ensure that we can breathe properly. Let us find out more about lung or pulmonary ...more
Lungs expand and contract on a constant basis to ensure that we can breathe properly. Let us find out more about lung or pulmonary ...more
Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Lung cancer is the cancer killer of both men and women in the U.S. When you think of risk factors for lung cancer, what comes to mind? Most of us think about the risk associated with smoking cigarettes, but did you know that air pollution can also cause lung cancer? Overwhelming evidence shows that particle pollution in the outdoor air we breathe like that coming from vehicle exhaust, coal-fired power plants and other industrial sources can cause lung cancer. Particle pollution increases the ris...more
Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Lungs are the most important organ of our body that has the responsibility of taking in the oxygen and releasing out carbon dioxide. When cancer develops in it, the entire body gets imbalanced. Lung cancer leads to more death than any other type of cancer, which is why identifying the symptoms and knowing the causes are instrumental in obtaining a timely diagnosis as well as in prevention of this disease.
Symptoms of Lung Cancer
In the early stages:
Persistent coughing...more
Symptoms of Lung Cancer
In the early stages:
Persistent coughing...more
Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Lungs are the most important organ of our body that has the responsibility of taking in the oxygen and releasing out carbon dioxide. When cancer develops in it, the entire body gets imbalanced. Lung cancer leads to more death than any other type of cancer, which is why identifying the symptoms and knowing the causes are instrumental in obtaining a timely diagnosis as well as in prevention of this disease.
Symptoms of Lung Cancer
In the early stages:
Persistent coughing...more
Symptoms of Lung Cancer
In the early stages:
Persistent coughing...more
Last Updated: 6 years ago• Featured Tip
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What is Interstitial lung disease?
Interstitial lung disease describes a large group of disorders that inflame or scar the lungs. Once lung scarring occurs, it s generally irreversible. Medications can slow the damage of interstitial lung disease, but many people never regain full use of their lungs.
Symptoms of Interstitial lung disease-
Airborne toxins in the workplace
Radiation therapy for lung or breast cancer
Chemotherapy drugs
Systemic lupus erythemat...more
Interstitial lung disease describes a large group of disorders that inflame or scar the lungs. Once lung scarring occurs, it s generally irreversible. Medications can slow the damage of interstitial lung disease, but many people never regain full use of their lungs.
Symptoms of Interstitial lung disease-
Airborne toxins in the workplace
Radiation therapy for lung or breast cancer
Chemotherapy drugs
Systemic lupus erythemat...more
Last Updated: 6 years ago• Featured Tip
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Oncologist•Mumbai
Radiotherapy is a kind of treatment that kills the cancer cells by using high-energy beams. Specialists use radiotherapy to treat a wide range of lung cancer. For early-stage lung cancer, the radiotherapy may get rid of cancer totally.
For the small cell lung cancer, you may have radiotherapy only. Then again you may have it with another treatment, for example, chemotherapy or surgery.
For small cell lung cancer, radiotherapy is used with or after chemotherapy. Chemotherapy mak...more
For the small cell lung cancer, you may have radiotherapy only. Then again you may have it with another treatment, for example, chemotherapy or surgery.
For small cell lung cancer, radiotherapy is used with or after chemotherapy. Chemotherapy mak...more
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