10 facts about Lung Cancer

10 Facts about LUNG CANCER
How common LUNG CANCER is?

Data says, 1 in 68 males suffers from lung cancer.
The projected incidence of patients with cancer in India among males was 679,421 (94.1 per 100,000) and among females 712,758 (103.6 per 100,000) for the year 2020.

Lets see some of the facts about LUNG cancer:-

Fact 1: LUNG Cancer is the Leading Cancer Killer of both Men and Women worldwide.
Fact 2: Lung Cancer takes more lives every year than colon, breast, prostate cancer combined.
Fact 3: Almost 81% of those living with Lung cancer are elderly. It effects elderly more severely.
Fact 4: The survival rate of Lung Cancer is 17% and is drastically lowering. Breast cancer has 90% survival rate where as Prostate cancer has nearly 100% survival rate.
Fact 5: Only 15% of Lung cancers caught at early stage. When the cancer spreads to other organs, it drops the survival rate further down to 3.5%
Fact 6: More than half of Lung cancers patients pass away with in a years time of their diagnosis.
Fact 7: Its a well known fact that smoking is responsible for roughly 90% of all cases of Lung cancers.
Fact 8: If we see 5-year survival rate with all types of lung cancer is 21%.
Fact 9:Early stage lung cancer- the cure rate can be as high as 80-90%. key to surviving lung cancer is catching it at early stage.
Fact 10: Lung Cancer is the most common type of cancer throughout the world.

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-for prevention
-better diagnosis
-better treatment
-better survival
-avoid recurrence

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