In an interview with the Journal of Medicine and Health Public Neurologist, Edwin Alicea, explains that the cigarette can provoke other types of cancer and the cigarette is the main risk factor for having pulmonary cancer
El pulmonary cancer originates in the tejidos of the pulmonium when the cells empyzan to multiply without control and is the main cause of death for cancer both in men as women in the world.
The most prevalent syndromes of pulmonary cancer son la tos y falta de aire. However, it is important to note that these symptoms are associated with other pulmonary processes associated with pulmonary embolism.
“Cigarette is the leading cause of pulmonary cancer in 90%,” the neurologist concluded.
Others risk factors to pad cancer is the exposure to the radiation, asbestos, fibrosis of the pulmonary, between other. In addition to genetics there are factors such as obesity that can increase the risk of breastfeeding.
The prevalence of pulmonary cancer has increased in the United States, including other types of cancer and in Puerto Rico the investigations he demonstrated that in the island are smoked less than in the United States.
“The law that has been in place since 2008 to ban the consumption of cigarettes in public places such as restaurants, bars, and other places has allowed the incidence in Puerto Rico,” said the doctor.
Prevention is very important, from smoke The probable and impenetrable antecedents are that the probabilities of having cancer are minor and more so if they are 30 years old. For the detection of this type of cancer in the last few years, a well-known computed tomography test has been performed on low doses that can detect abnormal areas in the pulses that can be cancerous.
The people can be treated for this cancer with surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, direct therapy or a combination of these treatments that are based on the stage of the illness and other factors such as the general state of the person, the pulmonary function.
“The neurologist is not the only one to detect a cancer, we will work on the prevention, help the people to die of smoke ya que el cigarillo no solo provocation pulmonary cancer sino también puede provoke cancer de vejiga, cabeza y cuello, entre otros.