Informative Speech On Lung Cancer
Our world today is filled with so much sickness and disease. So much infection and disorder in our world that affects the lives of so many people. One of diseases is cancer. And in specific, lung cancer. Lung cancer impacts people’s lives from the diagnosis to the treatment and eventually the outcome. Lung cancer is a cancer that starts off or eventually grows into the lungs. The cancer is formed when the lung cells don’t function properly and start rapidly reproducing and then forming tumors. There are three main types of lung cancer: non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, and a lung carcinoid tumor. Non-small cell lung cancer is the main type of lung cancer, affecting around 85% of people with lung cancer. Small cell lung cancer
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One of the biggest side effects being hair loss. Hair loss is caused when the drugs used in chemotherapy or other treatments attack the growth cells of your hair and cause them to die, which makes your hair fall out. Some other symptoms that often times come with lung cancer are coughing, chest pain, change in voice, bronchitis, and many more. These symptoms often develop because of what is going on in your lungs. So man of your good cells are being damaged or destroyed and your body doesn’t have time to focus on repairing them because it is trying to fight off and kill the cancer cells. Another sort of symptom is that your body’s cuts or injuries may not heal quickly or even at all. When my grandpa had lung cancer, he developed a sore on his foot from his boot he wore. The sore kept on getting worse and worse over the months because his body couldn’t heal it. All of his cells for repair and healing were going to his lungs so his sore kept worsening as time went on.
When it comes to cancer, it is often a very serious issue to address. Many times because of the sad truth that many people lose their own life or someone around them loses a life because cancer. The 5 year survival rate for people diagnosed with a stage one non-small cell lung cancer is about 50%, while the 5 year survival rate for people diagnosed with a stage four lung cancer is around 1%. It is estimated that just in this year for the United States, 155,800 people will die from lung cancer. And globally, lung cancer will kill around 1,370,000 people each
One of the biggest side effects being hair loss. Hair loss is caused when the drugs used in chemotherapy or other treatments attack the growth cells of your hair and cause them to die, which makes your hair fall out. Some other symptoms that often times come with lung cancer are coughing, chest pain, change in voice, bronchitis, and many more. These symptoms often develop because of what is going on in your lungs. So man of your good cells are being damaged or destroyed and your body doesn’t have time to focus on repairing them because it is trying to fight off and kill the cancer cells. Another sort of symptom is that your body’s cuts or injuries may not heal quickly or even at all. When my grandpa had lung cancer, he developed a sore on his foot from his boot he wore. The sore kept on getting worse and worse over the months because his body couldn’t heal it. All of his cells for repair and healing were going to his lungs so his sore kept worsening as time went on.
When it comes to cancer, it is often a very serious issue to address. Many times because of the sad truth that many people lose their own life or someone around them loses a life because cancer. The 5 year survival rate for people diagnosed with a stage one non-small cell lung cancer is about 50%, while the 5 year survival rate for people diagnosed with a stage four lung cancer is around 1%. It is estimated that just in this year for the United States, 155,800 people will die from lung cancer. And globally, lung cancer will kill around 1,370,000 people each