Lung Cancer Month
Despite all the advances that have been made in recent years, lung cancer remains one of the worst expectations of healing has, and accounted for approximately 20% of cancer deaths. To this we must add that sits third in the list of most common tumors, second only to breast and colon.
Conscious of this reality and with the intention of improving the diagnosis and treatment as the most effective weapons to stop this tragic statistic, has published a report is to alert the public and health systems.
Lung cancer is an abnormal growth of cells within the lung. Unlike other tumors that can cause symptoms apparent before long, it only occurs in very advanced stages, making early detection, a factor that helps the healing, it is very difficult. This makes “almost 90% of patients die within five years since the disease is detected,” say from the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM).
This percentage makes him “the second leading cause of death worldwide after cardiovascular diseases,” said Dr. Dolores Isla, spokesman for the SEOM. However, Nils Wilking, a medical oncologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, says that “it is avoidable and preventable disease,” referring to smoking as the main risk of this cancer.
The veracity of this last fact can be checked only a glance at our surroundings and seeing in countries where the snuff is not too common, the figures are considerably less affected. This, obviously, “are really helping active anti-smoking policies” that have been developing some European governments in recent years, Wilking added.
Comparative Report on Lung Cancer in Europe, recently developed by the Karolinska Institute, puts Spain below the European average with regard to prevalence, with 41 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. However, we must also take into account that countries like Sweden the figures reduce by half.
This study also highlights data and that “the incidence of lung cancer, even though higher in males, is currently increasing among females and decreasing among men,” said Dr. Jose Luis Gonzalez Larriba Medical Oncology Service of Hospital Clinico San Carlos (Madrid).
On the other hand, Nils Wilking would point out that Spain is among the countries with better prospects of survival, a figure that looks like it may have its reason for being both “smoke-free policies as it is a leader in the diagnosis.”
However, note that there is a long way to go about improving health care and treatment equipment. Indeed, overturning the authorities to reduce bureaucracy involved in research and implementation of new drugs, is one of the primary objectives for the SEOM, a cancer that is considered the most dangerous.