Lung cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases which make most of the people suffer. Lung cancer has been noted by the Canadian cancer Society (2010) as the most leading one which affected both male and female in 2010 and out of 24,200 Canadians, 20,600 of them died of lung cancer. Like any other types of cancer, lung cancer is basically caused due to the abnormal growth of cells in one of the body parts, lungs. Although the role of genetics is not very popular in lung cancer but the history of lung cancer in families will lead to the high risk of getting lung cancer. Moreover if they were your parents, siblings or child then the chances of getting it is more. Genetics are becoming the most unpreventable factor that will lead to lung cancer. It is unpreventable but if it is detected early, it might help us to reduce the risk of developing cancer cells inside the body. There are three main causes of lung cancer besides genetics including lifestyle, environment and infections.
Lifestyle has been carried by people in their life, in their activities, and environment. There is a good lifestyle and bad lifestyle that people practice in their lives. If people follow their good lifestyle then the disease will not happen, but the problem is that many people follow bad lifestyle just because of imitating other people like drinking alcohol, smoking and unhealthy diet. This lifestyle has a bad effect to health especially to lung cancer. Drinking alcohol, smoking and consuming unhealthy diet are the three main factors in lifestyle that leads to lung cancer.
The foremost cause of the lung cancer depends on the lifestyle of the people. Drinking alcohol is one of the factors that usually we do not pay much attention. People think that drinking alcohol is one way to relieve stress and to socialize with friends. Drinking alcohol is usually practiced in different situations which are not limited to one event or activity. People usually do
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