The World Health Organization's cancer research institute announced the latest report on the 12th, and it is estimated that about 18 million new cancer cases will be added to the world this year, and nearly 9 million people will die. Experts say that the increase in cancer cases is partly due to population growth and aging, but individuals can do more to reduce their chances of getting sick.

Cancer early treatment is no longer a death sentence

Kuji, director of the WHO non-infectious disease department, said that many cancers can be prevented, and the key preventive measures are mainly on common risk factors: smoking, drinking, lack of exercise, and improper diet. He pointed out that more and more countries are committed to cancer prevention, including rapid diagnosis and treatment. For those who have cancer, cancer should no longer be a death sentence.

According to the study, nearly 44 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with cancer after five years of survival. The data is based on 185 countries around the world.

Lung cancer, the highest rate of death among men and women

According to UN researchers, lung cancer is the highest rate of cancer among men and women, with the second leading cause of cancer in women, and the third is colorectal cancer. Although the development of lung cancer takes decades, within a few years, it may not be possible to see a decline in the proportion of cancer due to a decline in smoking rates.

The Cancer Research Institute noted that more than half of all cancer deaths will occur in Asia, as the region's population accounts for 60% of the world's population. About 23% of cancer cases in Europe and 21% of cancer cases in the United States. Africa accounts for about 7% of cancer cases worldwide, but the mortality rate on the African continent is high, mainly due to limited local health resources, and cancer is not easy to detect early or treat early.

In developed countries, cancer prevention efforts have helped reduce the incidence of different types of cancer, including lung cancer and cervical cancer. In developing countries, the proportion of colorectal cancer increases due to the socio-economic development process. Bray, chairman of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, estimates that there will be 29 million cancer cases and 16 million deaths from cancer in 2040.

What is lung cancer?

Why the lung is very sensitive to pollutants, mainly from tobacco smoke? What happens exactly when does cancer develop? As the body is constructed?

Basic function of the lungs and the origin and incidence of lung cancer offers the following text. He can patients and their families to help understand the disease better. For those interested in offering links to more detailed information and the information used in creating the text sources.

The word cancer is a large group of very different diseases with one thing in common: the uncontrolled division of cells of an organ or tissue. What emerges is a tumor, in German: a tumor.
So-called solid tumors arise from cells of a single organ. They can be benign or malignant, also known as benign or malignant. Lung cancer is one of the malignant solid tumors. Benign tumors of the lung are rare.

Malignant tumors are characterized by the fact that they control the normal growth of the organism are removed. The altered cells proliferate unchecked. They grow into surrounding tissue and destroy it. You can enter lymphatic vessels and bloodstream and enter the blood and lymph to other organs of the body. There you can locate the cells and solid tumors re-grow - it caused secondary tumors, called metastases. Even lung cancer may be affected resulting in metastasis to lymph nodes, for example, brain or bone.

In contrast to solid tumors are leukemias, lymphomas, originating from the bone marrow and the cells of the hematopoietic and the immune system and affect the entire body. Some lymphomas may arise from tumor cells, however, nodes or tumors that are similar to solid tumors. Such lymphoma can also affect the lungs, they are not as lung cancer in the strict sense and are therefore not discussed in this text. Patients who are diagnosed with lymphoma in the chest find more information in the text " Malignant lymphoma ".