BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is a preventable disease that has a poor prognosis in most patients. It has a high association with tobacco smoking. Diagnosis involves looking for new symptoms and signs, or changes in existing ones, with a heightened index of suspicion in patients who have ever smoked...
—You’d better give up smoking。Smoking is the biggest preventable ___ of lung cancer. —I just can't give it up,however hard I try。 A. reason B. excuse C. cause D. result 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 C 解析:考查名词辨析.cause表示引起某事的“起因,原因”,常与of搭配;reason用来...
This year, more than 1 million Americans and more than 10 million people worldwide are expected to be diagnosed with cancer, a disease commonly believed to be preventable. Only 5–10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects, whereas the remaining 90–95% have their roots ...
There is no single thing that can prevent all cancer risk, but there are 6 pillars of lifestyle that people can adopt to best prevent the disease. Much of cancer incidence is preventable, explained Dawn Mussallem, DO, DipABLM, consultant in the Department of Hematology Oncology and a...
While a family history of lung cancer mayincrease your riskof developing the disease, many other factors play a role. Some of theserisk factorsinclude: Smoking:Cigarette smokingis the single most preventable cause of lung cancer. Exposure to secondhand smoke: Exposure to secondhandsmoke increases yo...
Lung Cancer What Is Lung Cancer? Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for men and women. It is also the most preventable form of cancer. Tobacco use accounts for 87% of lung cancers. There are two major types of lung cancer: 1. Non-small cell lung cancer (87%) 2. Smal...
Globally, the growing prevalence of preventable cancers suggests a need to understand how features of the built environment shape exposure to cancer development and distribution within a population. This scoping review examines how researchers across disparate fields understand and discuss the built ...
1 Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable lung cancer, the risk of which is directly related to the amount and duration of smoking and is inversely related to duration of smoking cessation.2,3 Screening smokers who are at high risk with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) may...
BSmoking is the world's leading preventable cause of death. In the United States, smoking rates are downfrom the past, but cigarettes still cause about one-fifth of all deaths. Nonsmokers are also affected. Thousandsin the United States die each year from heart disease and lung cancer from...
a variety of preventable causes of death, smoking accounts for the largest share. Smoking greatly increases the chance of lung cancer, lung cancer is the most difficult to treat cancers of the highest mortality, is 80% per cent of lung cancer caused by smoking, death was caused by cancer ...