Not small-celled cancer of a lung
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Description:
Not small-celled cancer of a lung meets much more more often than small-celled. This histologic type is diagnosed for 85 percent of patients with lung cancer. At an early stage of not small-celled cancer of lung the surgical oncotomy is carried out.
Symptoms of Not small-celled lung cancer:
* Again developed cough or change usual for the patient - the smoker of nature of cough.
* Fatigue
, lack of appetite.
* Loss of weight.
* An asthma
, pains in a thorax.
* A dysphonia - change of a voice.
* An ostealgia, a backbone (at metastasises in a bone tissue).
* An epilepsy attack, headaches, weakness in extremities, disturbances of the speech - possible symptoms metastasises in a brain on 4 stages of lung cancer.
Depending on a structure of a tumor distinguish 3 options of not small-celled cancer of lung:
1. A tumor from a keratosic epithelium
2. Adenocarcinoma
3. Macrocellular undifferentiated carcinoma
Reasons of Not small-celled lung cancer:
In difference from the majority of oncological diseases, the main reason for development of lung cancer is well-known.
Smoking - the main reason for lung cancer. Tobacco smoke contains more than 40 carcinogens - the chemical compounds causing lung cancer.
At men in 78 percent, and at women cancer of a lung develops in 90 percent of cases owing to smoking.
The risk of development of cancer of lung is proportional to quantity of the cigarettes smoked in day and the smoker's "experience". On average smokers have lung cancer by 16 times more often than non-smoking. The statistics of incidence looks even more impressive for begun to smoke aged up to 16 years, lung cancer is diagnosed in this group by 32 times more often than at non-smoking.
Treatment of Not small-celled lung cancer:
The tumor structure option practically does not influence the choice of tactics of treatment.
