new lung cancer treatments
Humans often can be stubborn, and ignorant. Smoking has health risks for short and long term, however we continue to light the "ole cancer stick." Often, nothing can make us stop this bad habit, believing that "not going to happen."
Recently, evidence was produced at the American Association for Cancer Research that an alarm test may be available in future years to be used as kick a "in the pants" for smokers.
Research has shown that when lung cancer risk is high, the urine of a person shows a high percentage of 2 different chemicals.
Lung cancer is the deadliest of all tumors, with more than 215,020 new diagnoses made in 2008. There are about 60 carcinogens found snuff the smoke, the identification of by-products or metabolites may help researchers determine which can lead to tumors.
Smokers an advanced level of the metabolite NNAL have been recognized as 2 times the likelihood of contracting lung cancer.
Cotinine has also been recognized as a great risk indicator. It is a byproduct of nicotine, and the presence of this metabolite in smokers have been shown to have 3 times the risk compared with smokers with levels lower.
The unfortunate patient who has high levels of cotinine in both & NNAL are 8.5 times more for lung cancer, the smokers with lower levels of the two.
It is found that these 2 factors mean more danger for smokers including daily consumption, or time smoking.
What makes a smoker more likely to have levels of concentration of these products than another? Nobody knows. Metabolic systems, heredity and genes play a definitive role.
The researchers, under no circumstances want this to be a license for some smokers to continue despite his bad habit that their levels of the 2 products may be low. Smoking has no value, just inconvenience to the body and to those inhaling secondhand smoke. Fortunately, The urine test in the future, will offer a sign of lack of care and save lives.
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