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Jakarta, Spasi-id.com - initially the symptoms of lung cancer were undetectable so it was important to detect early cancers in order for the odds to heal. So it says
Chairman of the Indonesian Cancer Foundation, Professor Dr. Aru Wiraksono Sudoyo, Sp.PD-KHOM, FINAlM.
"The symptoms of lung cancer are often invisible in early stages, the data currently shows that 60 percent of lung cancer patients are coming in the next stage," said Aru quoted from the Atara Wednesday (31 / 8 / 2022).
It explains, often lung cancer has symptoms similar to other common diseases like TBC, so it's important for people to increase knowledge of risk factors, symptoms and available treatments including recent innovative care as new hope for lung cancer treatment.
In addition, lung cancer is the type of cancer that happens to be the highest in men in Indonesia. Because 95 percent of lung cancer is environmental and lifestyle, and smoking habits. Indonesia is number one in the world's largest male smokers as well as high pollution.
The early symptoms of lung cancer can be a constant cough, a chest pain that deteriorates with deep breathing, cough, or laugh, sound hoarse or asphyxiation, loss of weight and loss of appetite, blood cough or a corrosive dachak, easily tired and persistent infection, like bronkitis and pneumonia.
When it continues, a person will feel the bone pain especially on the back or the hip, experiencing neurological changes like headaches, weaknesses or numb feelings of hands or legs, dizziness, balance or seizures. Advanced symptoms are also yellow disease and lymph swelling.
Therefore, it is advised that smokers stop smoking completely, not gradually, to reduce the risk of cancer. Because, the consumption of cigarettes regardless of the amount or many still poses the same risk of disease.
