Research Paper On Lung Cancer
Shane Guerra
Professor Wombles
October 25, 2015
English 1301
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the major cause of death related to cancer in both men and women. That goes for everyone worldwide, not just the U.S.A. It kills more people than prostate, colorectal, and breast cancer combined. Over 150,000 people are expected to die from lung cancer this year. That contributes to about Twenty-Seven percent of cancer related deaths. The amount of deaths caused by lung cancer has steadily been rising Three and a half percent each year since 1999.
Even though there are a lot of deaths from it each year, there are more people diagnosed with it. The lucky ones that found the cancer early enough were most likely able to treat it properly with minimal side …show more content…
effects. The others who weren’t either died a horrible death, that had a possibility to be avoided or they had a “Laryngectomy”.
There are two types of lung cancer, The most common is Non Small Cell Lung Cancer. It comes in At Eighty-Five percent of diagnosed lung cancers. It usually starts to form in the lining of the bronchioles. This type of cancer is thought to be in be pre cancerous areas of the lungs. The first changes will come to the DNA, it causes the cancer cells to grow faster. It will look weird under a microscope but at this time in the cancer it hasn’t developed enough to from and kind tumors. Since it hasn’t developed into true cancer it won’t be able to be seen on x-rays and rarely cause any kind of symptoms.
About Eighty-Five percent of the lung cancers in the world are non-small cell lung cancer.
There are 3 main types of the cancers. The cells differentiate in how big they are, appearance, and molecular compound when looked at under a microscope. They are put in the same group together because the process of the treatment is very alike.
The second type of lung cancer is Small cell lung cancer. It got its name because of how it looks while under a microscope. This one starts near the center of the chest. The spread of it is very fast and is usually detected when it has spread to other parts of the body. And in some cases that’s when it was too late.
One main type of treating cancer is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy mainly operates by slowing the growth of cancer cells which spread incredibly fast. It can also do damage to healthy cells that quickly, such as ones in your mouth and stomach or in your hair. Damage to healthy cells may cause side effects. Such as fatigue, which is most common in cancer patients. Chemotherapy does cause some problems within the patient but it can ultimately make the patient better. That’s why it is most commonly practiced. Patients have gotten rid of cancer because of chemo so it does more good than …show more content…
harm.
Tobacco is the main cause of Lung cancer.
Damage to the lungs start early in people who smoke cigarettes due to the amount of chemicals in them. People of the same age who do not smoke have a higher lung function than those who do smoke. The smoke worsens their lungs every time they smoke. It gradually becomes more and more deadly.
I have people in my life who smoke cigarettes on a day to day basis. It’s mostly family. I see them everyday lighting up another “deathstick” and it kills me to let them do that. They know the risks of smoking so telling them would not do any good. My Grandmother who has been smoking for the most of her life is now seventy-nine. She and her husband have to carry around oxygen tanks because they struggle to breathe. They physically can’t breathe without a certain apparatus to keep them alive. One of the very few things in life we need to survive is oxygen and they ruined the thing that could give it to
them.
My mother started smoking when she was young. She had quit for about ten years before she got hooked again. She had been going through a hard time because my grandfather had just got a heart attack. My aunt had come in to help with everything and she got my mother to start smoking again even though she didn’t mean to. So now she’s been smoking for a little bit. She doesn’t have to have an oxygen tank yet but i can tell when it starts to get colder it gets harder for her. She has tried her best to keep that side of her away from me but i’m getting older and can start putting two and two together. I worry about her sometimes but i know that she’ll be fine and can fight her way through anything possible.
My brother now is the newest of the group to start smoking. Even though he just does it casually I feel like he can get hooked just as easily as everyone else. He had always gotten upset when my mom had whipped out her own cigarette. It would always make me mad because she was a grown woman and could make her own decisions. But I couldn’t shake the feeling that he would end up smoking too because he was criticizing her so much. Sometimes I feel like he does it just around people because it’s a social thing. It’s the norm for people to seem cool.
Professor Wombles
October 25, 2015
English 1301
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the major cause of death related to cancer in both men and women. That goes for everyone worldwide, not just the U.S.A. It kills more people than prostate, colorectal, and breast cancer combined. Over 150,000 people are expected to die from lung cancer this year. That contributes to about Twenty-Seven percent of cancer related deaths. The amount of deaths caused by lung cancer has steadily been rising Three and a half percent each year since 1999.
Even though there are a lot of deaths from it each year, there are more people diagnosed with it. The lucky ones that found the cancer early enough were most likely able to treat it properly with minimal side …show more content…
effects. The others who weren’t either died a horrible death, that had a possibility to be avoided or they had a “Laryngectomy”.
There are two types of lung cancer, The most common is Non Small Cell Lung Cancer. It comes in At Eighty-Five percent of diagnosed lung cancers. It usually starts to form in the lining of the bronchioles. This type of cancer is thought to be in be pre cancerous areas of the lungs. The first changes will come to the DNA, it causes the cancer cells to grow faster. It will look weird under a microscope but at this time in the cancer it hasn’t developed enough to from and kind tumors. Since it hasn’t developed into true cancer it won’t be able to be seen on x-rays and rarely cause any kind of symptoms.
About Eighty-Five percent of the lung cancers in the world are non-small cell lung cancer.
There are 3 main types of the cancers. The cells differentiate in how big they are, appearance, and molecular compound when looked at under a microscope. They are put in the same group together because the process of the treatment is very alike.
The second type of lung cancer is Small cell lung cancer. It got its name because of how it looks while under a microscope. This one starts near the center of the chest. The spread of it is very fast and is usually detected when it has spread to other parts of the body. And in some cases that’s when it was too late.
One main type of treating cancer is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy mainly operates by slowing the growth of cancer cells which spread incredibly fast. It can also do damage to healthy cells that quickly, such as ones in your mouth and stomach or in your hair. Damage to healthy cells may cause side effects. Such as fatigue, which is most common in cancer patients. Chemotherapy does cause some problems within the patient but it can ultimately make the patient better. That’s why it is most commonly practiced. Patients have gotten rid of cancer because of chemo so it does more good than …show more content…
harm.
Tobacco is the main cause of Lung cancer.
Damage to the lungs start early in people who smoke cigarettes due to the amount of chemicals in them. People of the same age who do not smoke have a higher lung function than those who do smoke. The smoke worsens their lungs every time they smoke. It gradually becomes more and more deadly.
I have people in my life who smoke cigarettes on a day to day basis. It’s mostly family. I see them everyday lighting up another “deathstick” and it kills me to let them do that. They know the risks of smoking so telling them would not do any good. My Grandmother who has been smoking for the most of her life is now seventy-nine. She and her husband have to carry around oxygen tanks because they struggle to breathe. They physically can’t breathe without a certain apparatus to keep them alive. One of the very few things in life we need to survive is oxygen and they ruined the thing that could give it to
them.
My mother started smoking when she was young. She had quit for about ten years before she got hooked again. She had been going through a hard time because my grandfather had just got a heart attack. My aunt had come in to help with everything and she got my mother to start smoking again even though she didn’t mean to. So now she’s been smoking for a little bit. She doesn’t have to have an oxygen tank yet but i can tell when it starts to get colder it gets harder for her. She has tried her best to keep that side of her away from me but i’m getting older and can start putting two and two together. I worry about her sometimes but i know that she’ll be fine and can fight her way through anything possible.
My brother now is the newest of the group to start smoking. Even though he just does it casually I feel like he can get hooked just as easily as everyone else. He had always gotten upset when my mom had whipped out her own cigarette. It would always make me mad because she was a grown woman and could make her own decisions. But I couldn’t shake the feeling that he would end up smoking too because he was criticizing her so much. Sometimes I feel like he does it just around people because it’s a social thing. It’s the norm for people to seem cool.