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2. WHAT IS MEANT BY EPIDEMIOLOGY &
ETOLOGY ?
EPIDEMIOLOGY
• the branch of medicine which deals
with the incidence, distribution, and
possible control of diseases and
other factors relating to health.
ETIOLOGY
• Study of causes of disease
3. INCIDENCE OF CANCER
• Lung cancer is one of the most common deaths accounting for 1/3 of all cancer
deaths.
• It is most common cause of death both in men as well as woman. Although rates
of lung cancer is reducing in men but it is increasing in women.
• There has been increase of lung cancer in non smokers or who had minimum
smoking history (<10-15 packs year).
5. HOW DOES SMOKING LEADTO
CANCER ?
• Smoking is by far the biggest preventable cause of cancer.
• Chemicals in cigarette smoke enter our blood stream and can then affect the
entire body.This is why smoking causes so many diseases, including at least
15 types of cancer, heart disease and various lung diseases.
• Smokers have a much higher risk of lung cancer than non-smokers, whatever
type of cigarette they smoke.There’s no such thing as a safe way to use tobacco.
• It usually takes many years, or decades, for the DNA damage from smoking to
cause cancer. Our bodies are designed to deal with a bit of damage but it’s hard
for the body to cope with the number of harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke
7. How does smoking cause cancer?
SMOKING
DAMAGES
CELL
LEADSTO
CANCER
8. WHAT IS ASBESTOS ?
• Asbestos is a group of minerals that
occur naturally as bundles of fibers.
These fibers are found in soil and rocks in
many parts of the world.They are made
mainly of silicon and oxygen, but they
also contain other elements.
• Asbestos fibers can be useful because
they are strong, resistant to heat and to
many chemicals, and do not conduct
electricity. As a result, asbestos has
been used as an insulating material
since ancient times.
9. HOW DOES ASBESTOS LEADTO LUNG
CANCER ?
• When asbestos fibers in the air are inhaled, they can stick to mucus in the
throat, trachea (windpipe), or bronchi (large breathing tubes of the lungs) and
might be cleared by being coughed up or swallowed.
• But some fibers reach the ends of the small airways in the lungs or penetrate
into the outer lining of the lung and chest wall (known as the pleura).
• These fibers can irritate the cells in the lung or pleura and eventually cause lung
cancer.
10. HOW ARE PEOPLE EXPOSEDTO
ASBESTOS ?
INHALING
• Most exposures come from inhaling
asbestos fibers in the air.
• This can occur during the mining and
processing of asbestos, when making
asbestos-containing products, or
when installing asbestos insulation.
• It can also occur when older buildings
are demolished or renovated, or
when older asbestos-containing
materials begin to break down
SWALLOWING
• Asbestos fibers can also be
swallowed.
• This can happen when people
consume contaminated food or
liquids (such as water that flows
through asbestos cement pipes).
• It can also occur when people cough
up asbestos they have inhaled, and
then swallow their saliva.
11. RADIATION EXPOSURE
• The associations between radiation exposure and cancer are mostly based on
populations exposed to relatively high levels of ionizing radiation (e.g., Japanese
atomic bomb survivors and recipients of selected diagnostic or therapeutic
medical procedures).
• Literature from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also suggests
a possible association between ionizing radiation exposure and prostate, nasal
cavity/sinus, pharyngeal and laryngeal, and pancreatic cancers.
• Those cancers that may develop as a result of radiation exposure are
indistinguishable from those that occur naturally or as a result of exposure to
other chemical carcinogens.
12. OTHER LUNG DISEASES
• Lung scars and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases are associated with an
increase risk for lung cancer .