Yourlungsare part of a complex system, expanding and relaxing thousands of times each day to bring in oxygen and send out carbon dioxide. Lung disease can happen when there are problems in any part of this syste
Chest X-rays.These can help find signs of emphysema, other lung problems, orheart failure. CT scan.This can create a detailed picture of your lungs. It can tell the doctor if you need surgery or if you have lung cancer. Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG).This test checks heart function and...
Ursolic acid (UA) is a pentacyclic triterpenoid with significant anti-lung cancer activity and low toxicity. The bottleneck of UA in clinical application is poor water solubility and bioavailability. Until now, many novel UA derivatives have been developed to overtake these problems. In this paper,...
while someone who smokes one pack of cigarettes per day has a risk for the development of lung cancer that is 25 times higher than a nonsmoker, pipe, and cigarsmokershave a risk of lung cancer that is about five times that of a nonsmoker. ...
of spread is termedmetastasis; the areas of tumor growth at these distant sites are calledmetastases. Since lung cancertends to spread or metastasizevery early after it forms, it is a very life-threatening cancer and one of the most difficult cancers to treat. While lung cancer can spread to...
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If you are a current or former smoker, talk to your primary care provider about associated health risks and the benefits of lung cancer screening. The deadliest cancer for women is lung cancer, Kilby says. Talk to your health care team about better ways to eat healthily and get regular exer...
None of the cancer PRS were significantly associated with dementia (p>0.05/17=0.0029). The directionality of the overall cancer PRS (856 variants) was consistent with improved cognitive outcomes (p dementia=0.20; p fluid intelligence=0.052). Among PRS for individual cancers, only that for lung ...
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency is when your liver does not make enough of this protein, also known as AAT or alpha-1. AAT shuts off another protein that helps fight infection in the lungs, but that at high levels can destroy healthy lung tissue. Without enough AAT, the protein does not ...
Depressionand anxiety. Insomnia is a common symptom ofdepressionand anxiety. Heart failureandlungproblems. Some people find it difficult to sleep at night because they become breathless when they lie down. This can be a symptom of heart failure or a problem with thelungs....