Friday, August 12, 2011

Becoming Familiar With Lung Cancer

By Frida Tarquinio


You need to be well-informed of whatever you are going to be given for your lung cancer after you have been tested to establish how and the condition is. Some physicians make that fatal error of making decisions about you without letting you know what it is all about. That's misconduct, and you can sue them for it. Insist on being fully in the know.

There are side effects to some of the treatment options for lung cancer that you'd never know of unless you were told, or you experienced it. Actually you might be in the know of it if you did some preliminary study of it yourself, but it is better if your doctor helped told it to you themselves. In Canada, the situation is not quite as bad as in the United States, but it hits them worse because of the relatively smaller size of the population. According to reports from the Canadian Cancer Society, close to 23,000 new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed each year, and of them, about 20,000 die. Just awful.

As you grow older, the chances that you might catch lung cancer also grow with you. For this reason, your medical checks and tests need to increase in frequency. If you used to take them annually before, you might need to step it up to twice a year? for your own good.

Even if you are not spending a lot of time paying attention, you must know by now that smoking makes you a candidate for lung cancer. Even mere exposure to tobacco smoke could do that to you. The facts and statistics prove it.

When you suffer from lung cancer, you general health also counts, it will go some way to determine how much your body can withstand by way of treatment, which should guide the doctor's decision on what kind of medication you need to undergo. Chemotherapy seems to be the best known treatment today for any kind of cancer, however not all patients react to it the same way. Specifically with lung cancer, chemotherapy may result in a number of strange reactions that you must watch out for. But it might be worth it.

Some people might heal after treatment of their lung cancer condition, and others might not. Some might relapse with a worse version of the condition. Issues like this make it imperative for your doctor to understand your condition before they determine to treat, or to leave you alone.




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