Lung Cancer Information: Legal Advice for Asbestos Victims,
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. It is responsible for 1.3 million deaths worldwide annually. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, among both men and women. An estimated 173,700 new cases of lung cancer and an estimated 160,440 deaths from lung cancer will occur in the United States. It claims more lives each year than colon, prostate, lymph and breast cancers combined.Cigarette smoking causes most lung cancers. The more cigarettes you smoke per day and the earlier you started smoking, the greater your risk of lung cancer. High levels of pollution, radiation and asbestos exposure may also increase risk.Asbestos can cause a variety of lung diseases, including lung cancer. There is a synergistic effect between tobacco smoking.
The most common symptoms are shortness of breath, coughing (including coughing up blood), chest pain ,repeated problems with pneumonia or bronchitis and weight loss. Many lung cancers have a rich blood supply. The surface of the cancer may be breakable, leading to bleeding from the cancer into the airway. Treatment for lung cancer depends on the cancer’s specific cell type, how far it has spread, and the patient’s performance status. Common treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Wedge resection to remove a small section of lung that contains the tumor along with a margin of healthy tissue. Lobectomy to remove the entire lobe of one lung. Pneumonectomy to remove an entire lung. Bevacizumab stops a tumor from creating a new blood supply.
Bevacizumab is usually used in combination with chemotherapy and is approved for advanced and recurrent non-small cell lung cancer. Photodynamic therapy—(PDT) may be particularly useful for the care of persons with inoperable lung cancer. Photodynamic therapy inaugurated with the injection of a light-activated drug (e.g., photofrin/polyhaematoporphyrin, lumin). Elecctrosurgery is surgery performed using a needle, bulb, or disk electrode. Take precautions to protect yourself from exposure to toxic chemicals at work. Choose a healthy diet with a variety of fruits and vegetables. At least 30 minutes of exercise on most days of the week. Biking, swimming and walking are good choices. Stop smoking now. Quitting reduces your risk of lung cancer, even if you’ve smoked for years.
Lung Cancer Treatment and Prevention Tips
1. Stop smoking now. Quitting reduces your risk of lung cancer.
2. Avoid areas where people smoke, such as bars and restaurants.
3. Choose a healthy diet with a variety of fruits and vegetables.
4. Exercise daily biking, swimming and walking are good choices.
5. Avoid carcinogens at work. Take precautions to protect yourself.
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Lung Cancer rare before 1960?You look at history of the past and you don't see a lot of lung cancer before the 1960's. People smoked even in the 1700 and 1800's.
In some ways, I think this deal about smoking is somewhat hyped up. What about other exposures that may cause lung cancer?
Many of you may disagree. However, I think the media's "statistics" about things are sometimes biased rather than objective. How do we know that 80's of lung cancer deaths are contributed to smoking?
Okay- Smoking how much? 5 packs a day. 10 cigarettes a day (some are now saying smoking in moderation isn't bad for your health) I agree
Exposure to other chemicals? Working in a deasel factory? Putting asbestos on roofs? Genes? Eating very unhealthy?
It some ways it is like saying that a hamburger causes heart disease. Okay- eating a hamburger with 3000 other calories that day? along with sugar and hydroginated oils?
Or eating one hamburger a day with a healthy diet?
The media just gives their biased facts
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I have an asbestos fence on one side of my house but I think it was put up after all the banning of the dangerous materials, I think it is encased in cement. However as a kid i stupid played darts against the fencing & im afraid whether I inhaled the dust particles or not. I never really stood around the fence too much & the dart holes are only very small “scratches”, am I safe? I was never exposed for long periods of time I only played for 10-20 mins for about a few weeks. Thats it?
do you wanna die?
This shiet is banned! (Im not offending you)
Not all ceilings… asbestos was banned in 1973 and popcorn ceilings are still common in new houses.
All it is is plaster sprayed onto the ceiling with a special nozzle.
Anyway, if you paint over the popcorns, it should be OK.
Besides, it’ll look a lot better and they wont keep falling down all over the place like the fuckin things like to do.
My elementary school had asbestos in it (removed a few years after I went to high school), and the house I lived in at the time had asbestos too, and I turned out fine. The house I live in right now has lead pipes.
I basically spent my life in buildings with asbestos and lead pipes, so according to today’s, over-paranoid public, I should be dead by now.
Shortness of breath is the main first symptom. Fatigue, weight loss, and a dry cough are also symptoms. My mom died from mesothelioma in 2006.
The carcinogenic nature of asbestos (chrysotile) has been related to the shape of the particles more than their composition. In other words, the substance itself is not carcinogenic – the shape is!
Chrysotile produces very thin fibers that can be many times longer than they are wide. When these become embedded in the lungs, larger particles can be coughed out but smaller particles need to be carried out by a type of white blood cell called a macrophage. Unfortunately, small asbestos fibers tend to be so long relative to their width that they tend to be actually longer than the macrophages. When the macrophages try to engulf them, the cells puncture and the macrophages die before they can do their job.
The EPA has targeted asbestos fibers over 8 micrometers in length as being the bad actors in causing mesothelioma (asbestos-related cancer), and claims that particles shorter than about 4 micrometers are not harmful (although this point is still being argued). Theoretically, the macrophages can successfully engulf shorter particles and get rid of them.
So why the cancer? There have been various theories about the mechanism. One theory is that the constant release of biochemical "distress signals" given off by the dying macrophages are the actual cause of the cancer. Another theory is that the asbestos particles have active surface sites for the generation of free radicals from oxygen, and that the free radicals are capable of reacting with and damaging the surrounding cells.
It's an interesting story. The link below has everything that you need (it is basically a list of resource papers and articles) although you will have to do some work to sift through the material.
The summary I wrote here is just from memory. When I was in university many moons ago this was one of the hot research topics in our department, so I got to see a lot of presentations on the subject although it was not an area in which I was personally working.
Good luck on the project
Basically.. Yes. Lol.
Asbestos does indeed cause a rare form of lung disease called mesothelioma. It is because of the nature of the extremely small fibers that make up asbestos. Once the loose fibers are inhaled the stay in the lungs for years as a constant irritant to the lungs, and eventually cancer results. In the past asbestos was used in everything from brake shoes, to window putty, to pipe insulation and more. It was used because of its ability to withstand high temps. The real problem is when the fibers are loose like when the wheels of a car are removed and the dust is inhaled, or when the insulation of an old building is flaking and the fibers are loose and can be inhaled, this is the real danger. As long as the asbestos is intact and the fibers are not loose there is no danger. Asbestos is no longer used in cars, or insulation or ceiling tiles or any other products because it is so dangerous. If these are newer ironing board covers there is no asbestos in there. About 5 years ago here in MN there was a congressman who died of lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure. He worked in old buildings in the east side of Saint Paul, MN and was exposed to asbestos insulation. Once a person has it there is no cure, but based on what you wrote I would not worry about any modern products as asbestos was outlawed a long time ago.
Have you thought to ask your parents about this … or going to see your doctor?
Warts are not caused by asbestos … they are caused by a virus .
There have been many types of lung issues. None from asbestos as that takes many years to develop. There is however lung issues from all the construction dust from drywall and concrete which will effect you immediately.
I suppose it could be a danger if you were in the heavy processing of these items. On the other hand, people who have never smoked still get lung cancer, as did the wife of Christopher Reeves.
They say paint, intensive gasoline fumes, and other chemicals infiltrating our air can cause this as well.
My sister died with it and it was thought to be strictly from stress.
We are all at a certain risk level just by living in a society. Don't worry about it though – worry can cause cancer too.
tripyramidslide, i have seen Asbestos for Sell on Ebay. but why do you want it?
does asbestdos take time to go into yout lungs and kill you? or can you just breath it in and it will still have the same effect?
It depends on the kind of asbestos. Some kinds the risk is so low that it is worse to remove it, because of the added risk of stirring it up. I'm assuming you mean mesothelioma, which afflicts about 2-3,000 new people each year in the US (out of all third of a billion of us!), so the actual risk is very, very low. It also tends to be older folks. Of course, none of that helps if it's you, but you should keep the risk in perspective, and remember to wear a seatbelt and not smoke before you worry about spending mega-bucks removing asbestos or buying a new home to get away from it.
Here's some info on prevention:
It's unlikely.
Cats don't smoke, which greatly increases the likelihood of lung cancer for people who have been exposed to asbestos.
Cats don't live very long, and are likely to die of other causes well before lung cancer would show up.
But here's the thing: if your cat has been exposed to asbestos, so have you. Kitty will have carried some fibers home on her fur. I'm more worred about you than the cat. Tell your doctor. You may want to get screened in a decade.
Asbestos fibres are so small, they pearce through a cel membrane and unlike most other materials do not rot or get “eaten” by the body’s defense system.
As long as it is not disturbed it’s fine, but when an old house (with asbestos) fals down for whatever reason, the dust becomes dangerous.
Take care, LW
suggest you check out the american heart and lung website. lots of useful information there.