Lung cancer is the first cancer in the mainland with the highest incidence, with more than 800,000 new cases every year, and lung cancer has no obvious performance in the early stage, many people have found lung cancer, the disease has often progressed to the middle and advanced stages, at this time the difficulty of treatment has increased significantly, and many patients eventually lose their lives.
Therefore, it is very important not to want to affect health and life due to lung cancer, and to do a good job in preventive measures, which requires us to understand the high risk factors of lung cancer and stay away from it in life.
So, what are the risk factors for lung cancer?
1. Smoking
"Smoking hurts the lungs" is common knowledge that many people know. When smoking, the smoke after tobacco combustion can produce thousands of compounds, which contain a variety of carcinogens, long-term smoking, these carcinogens deposited in the lungs, causing damage to the lungs, and even inducing lung cells to become cancerous.
The longer you smoke and the greater the amount of smoke, the higher the risk of lung cancer. In addition to active smoking, passive inhalation of secondhand smoke also increases the risk of lung cancer. For the sake of your own health and the health of others, it is imperative to quit smoking.
2. Lung diseases
The presence of lung diseases may also increase the risk of cancer, such as inflammatory lesions of the lungs or scar lesions of lung fibers, such as silicosis, pneumoconiosis, tuberculosis, COPD, etc. often coexist with lung cancer.
In addition, some patients have a history of lung cancer, and the probability of lung cancer in this group will be significantly higher than that of ordinary people.
3. Air pollution
Modern social science, rapid economic development, at the same time, air pollution is also more and more serious, such as car exhaust, factory exhaust, industrial dust, etc., if long-term life in a polluted environment, long-term inhalation of harmful substances in the air, will undoubtedly increase the risk of lung cancer.
Some people due to occupational factors and long-term exposure to harmful substances, such as asbestos, radon, etc., can increase the chance of lung cancer, if the exposure to the above substances at the same time as the habit of smoking, then the risk of lung cancer is increased again.
4. Stir-fry vegetable oil smoke
Stir-fried vegetable oil smoke is one of the important factors in the high incidence of lung adenocarcinoma in women.
Studies have shown that the oil smoke contains a large number of harmful substances, long-term inhalation of these oil smoke, is likely to induce tracheitis, rhinitis and other diseases, and even cause COPD, and eventually induce lung cancer, cooking on the stove with poor ventilation and low combustion efficiency, its harm is no less than inhaling two packs of cigarettes per day.
Therefore, female friends should make reasonable use of range hoods when cooking, and at the same time reduce cooking methods such as frying, frying, and frying.
5. Family genetic history
The occurrence of lung cancer is not only related to acquired smoking, but also congenital genes are also one of the important factors that induce lung cancer.
Studies have shown that if an immediate family member has lung cancer, the chance of lung cancer in their family members is significantly higher than that of the average person.
Therefore, it is recommended that those who have a family genetic history of lung cancer usually pay more attention to their lung health, and should also do regular lung cancer screening to prevent it.
Many people always feel that lung cancer is very far away from themselves, but the data shows that the incidence of lung cancer is increasing year by year, because of this, we must pay attention to their own physical health, usually do a good job of protective measures, away from smoking, air pollution and other high-risk factors, develop healthy living habits, enhance immunity, avoid lung health damage, for those high-risk groups of lung cancer, we must regularly go to the hospital to do early screening, so that we can prevent problems before they occur!