Informative Speech On Lung Cancer

A little over a year ago my aunt died of lung cancer. I kept asking myself why she had lung cancer? She had never smoked or lived near a smoker, but yet she still had it. Now my question is what is lung cancer and why do non-smokers get lung cancer too? I chose this topic because I would like to find out why my aunt had lung cancer and where it can come from. In this report, I will be talking about how you can get lung cancer, how you can help to get rid of it, and other interesting facts. The definition of lung cancer has many meanings, but the main one is it's the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells that start off in one or both lungs. There is also another one where it says that lung cancer is the abnormal cells do not develop into healthy lung tissue, they divide rapidly and form tumors. The causes that I have found for smokers is smoking and
Some of the common ones are that you could get surgery. There are also different kinds of surgery like Pneumonectomy, Lobectomy, Segmentectomy, sleeve resection, Video-Assisted Thoracic, and Radiofrequency Ablation. There are other treatments like Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Immunotherapy, Medicines, Self-care, and Supportive Care. There are also specialists that you can see like Oncologists, Radiologists, Pulmonologists, and Orotic surgeon.
A Pneumonectomy is a surgery to remove a lung. This could cure one side of the lung cancer if you have it in both lungs. Then a lobectomy is to remove one section of the lobe of the lung. A Segmentectomy is also like the lobectomy, it removes a section of a lobe of a lung. Radiofrequency Ablation helps to reduce pain that lung cancer might produce. Radiation Therapy helps shrink tumors and kill cancer cells. The doctors use gamma rays, charged particles, and x-rays to shrink tumors. To kill the cancer cells the doctors use radioactive substances that travel through the blood and kills the cancer