Lung cancer is one of the most common and serious type of cancer. The symptoms usually go unnoticeable unless it is widely spread. Cancer of the lung, like all cancers, results from an abnormality in the body& basic unit of life, the cell. Normally, the body maintains a system of checks and balances on cell growth so that cells divide to produce new cells only when new cells are needed. Disruption of this system of checks and balances on cell growth results in an uncontrolled
division and proliferation of cells that eventually forms a mass known as a tumour. Tumours can be benign or malignant.
“Proper awareness of such a killer disease is still lacking and it gets too late when it is diagnosed.
The time when it is diagnosed it has either spread too much or it has become inoperative. There are three types of treatments for a lung cancer: radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery. The best treatment where lung cancer stands a chance of cure is surgery but for surgery the lung cancer must be diagnosed early,” says Dr. Ranjan Das, Consultant, Department of Respiratory Medicine, CK Birla Hospitals, CMRI.
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