Today lung cancer is a vital problem and results are fatal. All around the world it has the record of killing many people. In 1996 in U.S. 64,000 women died from lung cancer where as 40,000 women died for breast cancer .

It is related with smoking, asbestos and genetic heritage. Risks are changing due to using of smoking (numbers, duration). Even you quit smoking if you smoke more than five years you
have the risk of being lung cancer .

Among all types of lung cancers. Small cell lung cancer risk is %20 in humans. Its only reason is smoking.

Signs of Lung Cancer
Violent cough and breast pain. Breathing when you breathing in and breathing out, dyspnea, blood or bloody mucus outgoing. It also spread other organs and make pressure in organs. It
is called metastasis. It can be seen on brain, liver, adrenal cortex. Even it can spread to eyes and cause visual impairment.

When a doctor feels skeptical about this illness firstly they make bronchoscopy to the patient. Before doing this local anesthesia is done to the patient. Later doctor is going to take some pieces from your bronch and begin to examine cells from them to seek if there are cells with cancers. It is called biopsy.

Stages of Lung Cancer
If a small cell lung cancer is detected. Doctors begin to determine the phase of illness (phasing process). The doctors need it because he is going to make a plan related to this process.

A- Limited Sickness
Cancer is in lungs or lungs and lymphs.

B- Spread Sickness
Cancer is spreaded to other tissues and all of thoracic cavity

Lung Cancer Treatments
There are three types of treatments for lung cancer :

1 – Surgical intervention
2 – Radiotherapy
3 – Chemotherapy (killing cells with cancer)

Also, there are some alternative lung cancer treatments .

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