2. Symptom
Something that shows that you have a disease or
illness of anything kind
Diagnosis
The identification of the nature of a illness
Air pollution
When the air we breathe is polluted, it is dirtied by car’s
gas, smoke from cigarettes and much more other things.
Radon Gas
It is considered a danger to health because it can not be seen, heard,
tasted nor smelt.
Second-hand Smoking
When you breathe in another persons smoke from their cigarette
Asbestos
Fabric containing such a mineral
3. Lung cancer is a uncontrolled cell growth in the tissue of the lung.
When you realise that you have lung cancer, it is called the primary
lung cancer. There are two main types of lung cancers:
• ‘small cell lung carcinoma’(SCLC), or oat cell cancer(as some
people call it).
• ‘non-small cell lung carcinoma’(NCSLC).
In US, 15% of people survive for five years after diagnosis.
Lung cancer is the most common cancer people die from around
the world.
4. If you have lung cancer, and you don’t treat it, the disease will
spread along the lung and into other parts of the body called
metastasis. The common symptoms are:
• Coughing (it includes coughing out blood)
• Weight loss
• Shortness of breath.
You could just say that lung cancer affects your whole body.
Lung cancer can be very dangerous because it affects your
blood flow.
It causes bad blood which is not healthy for your body.
Every year there is 4,000 people with lung cancer in the US and
3,000 people die because of lung cancer.
5. There is lots of ways that you can get lung cancer but the most common
cause of lung cancer is long term tobacco smoke.
But you can also get lung cancer not just by smoking. You could get lung
cancer by:
• air pollution
• radon gas
• asbestos
• second-hand smoking.
If your mum smokes(or your dad), you might get lung cancer when
you are older. A baby can be born with a cancer, but the
cancer will never be lung cancer.
6. There are lots of different ways you can prevent lung
cancer. Here are some ways to prevent lung cancer:
• Don’t smoke
• Eat the right food and drink lots of water.
• Have someone to check your house for radon gas
• Keep away from second-hand smoking
• Know what you are being exposed to in your workplace.
Remember that you can get lung cancer any time in your
life. Lung cancer is a very dangerous cancer.
7. There is lots of ways to treat lung cancer but they might not
always work. Doctors have 4 ways to treat lung cancer
and they are all surgeries. They are:
• Pneumonectomies-doctors removes an entire lung but you
can still breathe.
• Lobectomies-they removes a lobe from the lung
• Segmentectomy-doctors removes part of a lobe
• Laser surgery-they destroys cancer cells in the tumour.
NSLCS is sometimes treated with surgery.
SLCS usually responds to other ways than surgeries like
chemotherapy and radio-therapy because these 2 treatments
are better at getting cells in other parts of the body.
9. Now you have reached the end of my power
point, I hope you have learnt some things about
lung cancer. Not only will I not smoke to avoid
lung cancer, but I will also eat the right food and
exercise and never drill asbestos. I will be very
sick if I drill asbestos. When I started this power
point, I now know why my mum always say
never smoke.
