LUNG CANCER
LUNG CANCER
Risk Factors
Signs and Symptoms
- A cough that does not go away or gets worse
- Coughing up blood or rust-colored sputum
- Chest pain that is often worse with coughing
- Hoarseness
- Weight loss and loss of appetite
- Shortness of breath
- Feeling tired or weak
- Infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia that don’t go away or keep coming back.
- New onset of wheezing
Preventing Cancer through Diet and Lifestyle
Principles of Screening
- Disease should be important health problem in terms of frequency and/or severity
- Natural history of disease presents window of opportunity for early detection
- Effective treatment should be available that favorably alters natural history of disease
- Treatment should be more effective if initiated earlier than during the symptomatic stage
- Suitable screening test should be available
- Appropriate screening strategy for the target population (i.e. age to begin and screening interval)
Screening
- Ideal screening test
- Cheap
- Sensitive
- Specific
- Accessible
- Safe
- Acceptable
Secondary prevention
- Cancer registration
- Hospital-based registries
- Population based registries
- Early detection of cases
- Treatment