🚨 "Lung cancer" is not just a smoker. 🚨

👉 When it comes to "lung cancer," many people think of smoking first, which is not very wrong, because cigarettes are the main risk of the disease, but the fact that many people may not know is that people who have never smoked can also have lung cancer 😱, and the number of patients is constantly increasing, especially in women and Asians.

Lung cancer risk factors are not just cigarettes. 🚨

While not smoking, these risk factors may increase the likelihood of lung cancer, e.g.

🔴 Second-hand smoke, prolonged inhalation of smoke from those around you.

🔴 PM2.5 dust lurking with carcinogens.

🔴 Radon, a radioactive substance without color, smell, or taste, common in the environment.

🔴 Asbestos (asbestos) in building materials such as tiles, ceilings, insulation.

🔴 Heavy chemicals in industrial facilities such as chromium, arsenic.

🔴 smoke from combustion, such as incense smoke, charcoal stove smoke, or cooking.

🔴 genetic factors, especially those with a family history of lung cancer.

Lung cancer symptoms that shouldn't be overlooked. 🚨

Early lung cancer often shows no symptoms, causing many to detect it once the disease has spread. Symptoms to be monitored include:

✅, chronic cough, voice change, or blood cough.

✅ Pain or tightness of chest, shortness of breath, easy to get tired.

✅, fatigue, weight loss with unknown causes, chronic fever

People at risk should check their lungs regularly even if they do not smoke.

Lung cancer in smokers vs non-smokers. What's the difference? 🤔

Doctors found that

👉 non-smokers usually have Adenocarcinoma, which is often found around the lungs, and often have gene abnormalities such as EGFR, ALK, ROS1, or MET.

👉 Smokers often find Squamous Cell Carcinoma, which occurs in medium trachea.

The patient's treatment and hope.

Currently, lung cancer treatment is very advanced, including surgery, chemotherapy, Targeted Therapy, and light therapy. In early patients (stage 1-2), VATS endoscopic surgery can be treated with small, sore, fast recovery, and faster return to normal life.

Prevent. Better than treat. ✨

Although lung cancer can happen to anyone, we can reduce the risk by

✅ Avoid smoking and secondhand smoke.

✅ Reduce exposure to 2.5 dust and hazardous chemicals.

✅ Care about the environment, housing and the workplace.

✅, exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet.

✨ lung cancer is not far away, nor is it a smoking disease. Knowing and taking care of yourself today is the key to preventing life in the days ahead. 😍

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