Lung cancer needs to be detected early

Every minute in Asia a person is killed by lung cancer. In most cases, the disease has been detected too late to be able to apply effective treatments.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of death in cancer in both men and women. Every year in Asia, about 570,000 people are killed by this disease. Between 60 and 70% of lung cancers are detected at the later stages of the disease, so most of these can not be cured.

Lung cancer research data show that less than 50% of people with developed lung cancer can live more than one year, and only 15% of patients have a chance to live longer than 5 years. Since the disease is detected in cases of developed disease.

Smoking is a major cause of lung cancer. In the coming years in Asia, the disease will become more and more serious, because the number of smokers is continuously increasing.

Experts must have taken into account many ways to detect lung cancer early, including the use of the best method of CT (computed tomography) scanning. In the US, CT scanning for lung cancer is being tested at the National Cancer Institute and is thought to be more effective than chest radiography to detect the disease. However, CT scanning is difficult to apply to low-income, low-income countries like Asia.

In Western countries, one year more than 1 million cases of lung cancer were discovered, this figure is equal to that in China alone in 2015. The World Health Organization warns that smoking will killed 2.2 million Chinese people by 2020.

Besides smoking, direct exposure to chemicals, mineral dust, radioactive dust is also a danger that increases lung cancer.

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