With these modern times of urban development, pollution and flourish of the smoking industry, we are not the only ones exposed to the risk of developing lung cancer. Our beloved dogs are just as vulnerable and many times just collateral victims of our own excesses and irresponsibility.
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Canine lung cancer can be primary lung cancer or metastatic cancer. Primary lung cancer in dos is rare but the most aggressive form and can swiftly metastasize to lymph nodes in the upper chest area and can even affect the nervous system. Metastatic lung cancer originates in other parts of the body such as a leg bone from where it has spread to the lung mainly through the bloodstream.



Just as in people, there are usually no symptoms in the early stages of canine lung cancer. While the cancer progresses one symptom becomes evident. This is a chronic cough without mucus although it may spit out small amounts of phlegm or blood making it easier to guess its condition. In addition, the dog may show some symptoms like dyspnea, which consists of difficulty in breathing, which is caused by the enlargement of the tumor to the extent in which it compresses the trachea. Dyspnea can also be caused by too much fluid being accumulated in the lungs, an affection called pleural efusion.

Other symptoms that should send us straight to the vet are: lameness once the cancer metastasizes to the limbs, lethargy, weight loss, appetite loss. Don't underestimate these symptoms and always make sure you've considered all options. It would be better to take your dog for a check up at least once a year and you should also consider permanent supplements to strengthen its immune system and organism on the whole. It's not as easy for a dog to adapt to urban life as it is for humans.



If a dog manifests such symptoms of canine lung cancer, a diagnosis is usually done with chest x-rays. The vet will look for the presence of any lung tumors. If a tumor is seen, examination with a fine needle aspirate and biopsy of lung tissue may have to be done to confirm malignancy and this, as well as treatment can be very expensive. You should consult with the vet and consider the dog's chances, the life it has to live while on the treatment and after and take a final decision. Many people have them put down because they cannot afford treatment but just as many make incredible sacrifices to make sure their pet has the same chance to life as a person would.

Treatments are the same as in humans, ranging from surgery to chemotherapy, radiotherapy and alternative medicine. Many dog owners have recorded very high rates of survival with the help of a herbal formula called "Essiac".

"I had a dry little cough but as it was summer and I certainly did not have a cold, I brought it up with my doctor when visiting on another matter. He listened to my chest but took no action. About a month later with this little cough persisting so I went again and my doctor was away and a young lady was replacing him. She ordered an x-ray "just to be sure" and they found a 7cm tumor behind my heart.." - This is how many testimonials of lung cancer patients sound like. It all starts with a little dry cough. This can be your body discreetly signaling you that an intruder is in your lungs. The cancerous tumor can be easily discovered through an x-ray and that little cough can become a matter of life and death.
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This cough can easily be confused with asthma or allergies but why not make sure there's no risk of lung cancer? Nowadays, lung cancer is the number one cancer killer in the world and even if you are not a smoker you can still become its victim. Unfortunately there's more awareness on fighting smoking than actually testing yourself for lung cancer and this debate over smoking has eventually tuned into a dangerous diversion.



In conclusion, don't just shrug your shoulders if one of your friends or family members ask you about this chronic cough you seem to be experiencing. Immediately seek medical attention and then also a second opinion is in order. Don't wait for the chest pain or other symptoms to kick in. By that time your survival chances will have plummeted.

Even the weakest cough can be a serious indicator of lung cancer. The other symptoms of lung cancer depend on its type, its location, and the way it spreads. Persistent cough can usually be accompanied by a change in the character o the cough and some people also cough up blood or sputum streaked with blood. Other symptoms you might experience include loss of appetite, weight loss, fatigue, chest pain, and weakness.

Don't panic immediately after you feel your cough has become chronic. You can say that a cough is chronic once it lasts more than 8 weeks. Up to this point coughing is considered to be good for the lungs and can prevent infections and helps clear particles and secretions from the lung.



The reason you shouldn't immediately panic is because, although lung cancer can cause coughing, very few people with a chronic cough have lung cancer.

You should really become worried if other risk factors are present in your life. For example, cancer is possible to develop especially if you are a smoker and your cough changes suddenly or if you continue to cough more than one month after quitting smoking. Either way go to your doctor and take all necessary measures to put your mind at ease.

Lung cancer is the type of cancer which has caused more deaths than all the others parts of the world, a trend that has been going on in the last couple of years and it seems that things would not get any better .
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Annually the statistics point out an average number of 1 millions deaths cause by lung cancer all over the world and this is much more than all the other forms of lung cancer ; the number is very worrying also because of the fact that the number of new cases discovered of lung cancer is very large and it has reached to a point where it has even passed 1,3 million patients that are being diagnosed each year with lung cancer .

Although there can be said that there are various causes of lung cancer it is important to know that only one of them is responsible for over 90 per cent of the total cases of lung cancer . Smoking is the main cause and all the people who smoke the smokers but also the people who do not smoke but who stay around smoke and they inhale smoke and who are passive smokers are exposed to very large risks of developing lung cancer disease .This cause could be easily eliminated if people only realized that smoking is bad and it is capable of creating such affections and to determine the apparition of lung tumors which actually cause the apparition and installation of lung cancer disease in the body .

But in the lack of this, the mortality rate of lung cancer is still very big and the factors that are linked with it are various but they all influence in different ways the survival rates of the patients that suffer of lung cancer . First of all the lung cancer is hard to be detected because the patients do not present first symptoms of lung cancer and the apparition of the lung tumors and that includes also the lung cancer itself can not be spotted . There can be detected only if there are made some radiographies or blood tests very often to the patient and in this way the lung cancer could be discovered at the beginning .

The first symptoms of lung cancer which can actually affect the patient and make him feel them very strong and visible appear only when the lung cancer is already advanced so it is no longer found in early stages like stage 1 or stage 2 ; The real and first signs of lung cancer appear in the stage 3 of lung cancer when the lung cancer is not longer local, but it has spread to the lymph nodes which are found near the place where the lung tumors are developed or to the lymph nodes on the same part of the body as the tumors but a certain distance away from them and also it has spread to many areas of the body and in this way many organs and vital functions of the body have been affected .

Lung cancer is one of the most let’s say common infections of our century and generations and today die more people because of the lung cancer than because of many other disease and also other types of cancer . One of the most grave things linked with the high mortality rate is the fact the lung cancer is very hard to be diagnosed in early stages mainly because of the fact that the lung cancer does not present early signs and symptoms .
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The symptoms which can be helpful in discovering the lung cancer are usually linked with advanced stages but this is a bad thing because the lung treatment can give better results when it is applied in early stages when the wide of treatments is much more various . So there is important to know what are the lung cancer symptoms and treatment that can be applied to it which depends on the stage of the lung cancer . So let’ start with the advanced stages of lung cancer when the cancer presents symptoms and to see which are those symptoms .

When lung cancers is already progressed and it is in stage 3 and although there is made a difference and division between stage 3a and stage 3b , they mainly consist of the same things ; the most serious fact is the one regarding that lung cancer is no longer local and it spreads to different parts of the body and it affects many organs and functions which are important and even vital for the patient’s . Beginning with this stage, the lung cancer symptoms are very clear and easily to be seen .

The symptoms of this stage are : shortness of breath, persistent and terrible cough and even coughing up blood, many repeated infections : bronchitis or pneumonia and where the cancer has spread are the places linked with following areas of the body : diaphragm, chest wall and the patients develop other types symptoms such as: terrible pains in ribs, shoulders, back, chest .

In this stage, usually the treatment that can be applied consists only of medication and especially chemo therapy and radiation therapy but they can not longer be used very much because both the therapies are very aggressive to the patients body and organs and can still have many side effects because of its roughest action and also because the patient’s body is very weak .

In early stages lung cancer symptoms do not exist but the treatment that can be applied is more various and also it can be more efficient . In early stages when the lung cancer is local and at the beginning there can take place surgery and if the place where the lung tumors are localized allow the intervention to take place and the tumors can be removed there are some chances that the patient can even be cured completely and of course it general state and health will improve very much and will not suffer so many affections .

Lung cancer is one of the most hard types of cancer to detect because when it is at the beginning meaning when the lung tumors just form and they start to develop the cancer they do not present any early signs or symptoms . Because of this and in lack of regular checking, the majority of patients which are diagnosed with lung cancer are usually found with cancers in advanced fazes when things are very serious and the chances of survival are small ; in this way could also be explained the large number of people who die every year killed by lung cancer, meaning over 1 million people, and also the high mortality rates .
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But in order to give an image of the lung cancer symptoms it is important to point out what are the stages of lung cancer and which are also the lung cancer symptoms which are linked with the stage of the cancer . Lung cancer is usually found in four stages which are scaled from stage one to stage four when we refer to the non small cells lung cancer because this is the most frequent type of lung cancer ; the small cells lung cancer usually do not occur in the majority of cases .

The stage one lung cancer means that the lung tumors are just formed and the cancer is still local and it is at the beginning and in this stage the patient presents no symptoms at all . Stage two of lung cancer means that lung cancer is still local but it has started to spread to different parts of the body meaning the lymph nodes that are found near the place where the lung tumors are localized or even to some lymph nodes which are found on the same part as the lung tumors but at a certain distance away from the place where the lung tumors are formed .

When lung cancers is found in stage 3 it is important to know that there is stage 3a and stage 3b and both of them mean almost the same thing ; the important thing is the fact that lung cancer is no longer local and it starts to spread to different parts of the body and in this way it affects many organs and functions which are vital . Beginning with this stage, the patients starts to show some lung cancer symptoms .

The symptoms of this stage are : shortness of breath, persistent and terrible cough, many repeated infections, here meaning bronchitis or pneumonia and the areas where the cancer has spread are : diaphragm, chest wall and the patients develop other types symptoms such as: terrible pains in ribs, shoulders, back, chest . These symptoms can be very rough and the patient will start to feel more and more tired and the treatments applied to him will give less and less results . In the final stage or stage four the things can not be repaired and the patient could die in any moment .

Lung cancer has , in comparison to other disease , not so many causes but the main cause which causes almost 90% of the total cases of lung cancer is smoking . Annually over 1,8 millions patients die all over the world which is more than 85% of the total cases discovered . The main causes for this large rate is the fact the lung cancer is hardly detected and diagnosed and usually when this thing happens it is already advanced , spread to other parts of the body and many times it often metastasizes .
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But it is important to know that can be patients that mange to survive and be cured ; it all depends on the type of treatment applied , when it is discovered , which stage is the disease , what size is the tumor and where it is located and even more important of all is what kind of cancerous cell is the tumor composed of . Survival rates for lung cancer are structured by the doctors in function of the cell kinds .

There are the following types of lung cancer cells and the survival rates according to every type for all the three stages of the disease : survival rate for the first two stages are not so pessimistic but it depends on the type of cancerous cells : for squamous cell – epidermoid is 38% for first stage and 16% for the second stage , for adenocarcinoma 32% for first stage and for second stage 7% , undifferentiated large cell 30% for first and 6% for second stage . For third stage the survival rate is between 3% for adenocarcinoma and 9% for squamous cell-epidermoid . But if we are talking about small cells – undifferentiated and rare giant cell carcinoma the expectancy of life is zero because they are very rapidly fatal to the patient . Even more , only 10 or extremely rarely 15% of the discovered cases are non-smokers . This illness shows no mercy : 85% of the total cases diagnosed die within the first five years after the cancer has been detected , so the life expectancy in case of lung cancer is very reduced .

In many cases , the treatment applied to which patient can harm other parts of the body although it can actually heal in some other part . This can happen because when the treatment is applied the cancer is already spread to other parts of the body , and it is difficult to action in every part where it has reached . Because of all this factors , the survival rates for lung cancer are so small and many patients develop many complications that affect heart , brain , bones , liver , adrenal glands which reduce the life expectancy even more .

Lung cancer is a very rough disease and the only treatment that can manage to reduce the harm or the even cure the patients remains the surgery , but unfortunately is not always possible to appeal to it .

During the last few years , cancer has been one of main illness that caused so many deaths all over the world and lung cancer has been one of the most common cancer in the world : 2002 the number of people diagnosed with lung cancer reached the highest number and that was about 1.3 million people were suffering of this disease ; over 90% of the total cases registered are caused by smoking . Smokers have a greater chance to develop this disease than non-smokers ; the risk to develop this lung affection  is almost double among the smokers .
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What is even more important is that not only smokers are affected by lung cancer but also the people that inhale the smoke named passive-smokers . Lung cancer may have other causes such as : radon gas , asbestos , viruses , particulate matter but none of this has registered so many infected person with lung cancer such as smoking . Even more , only 10 or extremely rarely 15% of the discovered cases are non-smokers .This illness shows no mercy : 85% of the total cases diagnosed die within the first five years after the cancer has  been detected .  This higher mortality rate is due to two key major factors : lung cancer is hard to detect in early stages and when it’s discovered it has already affected other parts of their body and also because lungs are such an important life organ.



Lung cancer is a deadly disease and what is even worse is that it can develop other complications which lead to acute effects of lung cancer on body . Some of the most frequent are fluid in lungs and also shortness of breath . The worst part is that because of the fluid in the lungs , cancer can spread to other parts of the body and cells which are normal can become infected with carcinogens . Following these effects , the long term effects will start to appear . Sometimes you can have  fluid in the lungs and this has another effect on body because cancer can spread to other parts of the body and cells which are normal can become infected with carcinogens.  There can be : disturbances of hormones , blood or other systems can be harmed  and apart from these can appear effects due to the treatment applied , or to the type of cancer or whether the lung cancer is metastatic or not . Lung cancer often can affect the liver , the adrenal glands , the bones or the brain. More effects occur when lung ,metastatic cancer affects the brain . It can cause many difficulties : the patients starts to have problems with : vision , weakness on one side of the body or even both and it can also affect seizures .Also , because of the lack of oxygen , the level of oxygen in blood drop and are very low which leads to shortness of breath again , then  there is the risk of a great enlargement of the right side of the heart and it can lead to a  possible  heart failure hich is called by doctors as pulmonary hypertension .



The acute effects of lung cancer can prove to be hard to bear and they can lead to more and more complications so because of them it is important to take care and go often to the doctor because any delay it is extremely important when you develop this affection .

Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer that kills annually 1.18 million people and over 90% of the total cases registered are caused by smoking . Smokers have a greater chance to develop this disease than non-smokers ; the risk to develop this lung affection  is almost double among the smokers . What is even more important is that not only smokers are affected by lung cancer but also the people that inhale the smoke named passive-smokers .

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There is a tight connection between the number of cigarettes smoked per day by a person and the risk of getting lung cancer and also another major factor represents the period of  time that a person has been smoking .Lung cancer may have other causes such as : radon gas , asbestos , viruses , particulate matter but none of this has registered so many infected person with lung cancer such as smoking . Even more , only 10 or extremely rarely 15% of the discovered cases are non-smokers .

It is a very rough disease because 85% of the discovered cased die within the first 5 years . This number is so big because lung cancer is really hard to detect in early stages  . Most of the patients are diagnosed with advanced levels of cancer . The majority of patients who develop the lung cancer are about fifty or sixty  years old and they have a large history of smoking .

Statistically, eight out of ten diagnosed cases with lung cancer occur in people over sixty years old . The type of treatment that can be applied to every patient depends very much on several factors : the type of lung cancer , the stage of cancer , the way the cells grow , the size of the tumor , where it is placed and the way other parts of the body have been affected .

The treatment for lung cancer can include a combination of various types of treatment such as : surgery , radiation therapy, chemotherapy or cryosurgery , pain medicines and even oxygen delivery . Another  solution which is accepted and recommend by doctors is taking nutritional supplements based on amino acids but not only them .

Although there treatments that could improve the quality of patient’s life or in some cases even cure him , the survival rate is very small : the majority of patients are given maximum 5 years of life since they have been diagnosed and only 5 or 10 % out of them actually mange to survive . This disease can also have many complications that can affect important vital organs such as : liver , adrenal glands , brain , bones and also the heart .

As time goes by and if treatment is not applied or it is applied wrong or it is not suitable for the patient , it will soon start disturbance in vision , low level of oxygen in blood and also because of the lack of oxygen there is a high risk to get a serious heart affection that can even cause death . It is extremely important to take care of health and to prevent as long as possible the risk to develop such sort of disease because the lung affection is very hard to cure and also because the side effect that appear in time due to it.

Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer that kills annually 1.18 million people and over 90% of the total cases registered are caused by smoking . Lung cancer is very often deadly because it is really hard to detect it in an early stage and also because once discovered in an advanced level it becomes hard to cure  .

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Of course , as any other type of cancer , lung cancer has effects on your body not only short term effects but also long term effects . It has been proved that the substances within tobacco are responsible for causing cancer ; they are even named carcinogens or " cancer-causing-cancer "and cigarettes contain over 60 of this kind of substances  .



Because of these cells , the short term effects are not shy to appear . and not so many people have asked what are the effects on the body from lung cancer . Some of the most frequent are fluid in lungs and also shortness of breath . The worst part is that because of the fluid in the lungs , cancer can spread to other parts of the body and cells which are normal can become infected with carcinogens . Following these effects , the long term effects will start to appear . This means that new health problems will develop such as : liver , brains and bone cancer . There can be : disturbances of hormones , blood or other systems can be harmed  and apart from these can appear effects due to the treatment applied , or to the type of cancer or whether the lung cancer is metastatic or not . Lung cancer often can affect also  the adrenal glands . Such effects cause bone pains , usually in the backbone , thighbones and ribs . More effects occur when lung ,metastatic cancer affects the brain . It can cause many difficulties : the patients starts to have problems with : vision , weakness on one side of the body or even both and it can also affect seizures . Because of the lack of oxygen , the level of oxygen in blood drop and are very low which leads to shortness of breath again , then  there is the risk of a great enlargement of the right side of the heart and it can lead to a  possible  heart failure which is called by doctors as pulmonary hypertension .



As you can see the effects of lung cancer on body are very rough . The patient has to deal with the problems of the lung cancer and its treatment but also he has to be applied a treatment for healing lung cancer and also for preventing the other side effects or to try to minimize them at a minimum level . The survival rate of lung cancer is small but associated with this kind of effects it is even smaller . That is why it is so important to try to prevent this disease and the best way of doing this is to quit smoking and avoid to say around people who smoke because it also harms us to intake their smoke .

Lung cancer kills annually 1.18 million people and over 90% of the total cases registered are caused by smoking but it has also other causes such as : radon gas , asbestos , viruses , particulate matter but none of this has registered so many infected person with lung cancer as smoking . It is a very rough disease because 85% of the discovered cased die within the first 5 years . This number is so big because lung cancer is really hard to detect in early stages  . Most of the patients are diagnosed with advanced levels of cancer  and it becomes hard to cure and to establish each treatment fits every patient . The type of treatment that can be applied to every patient depends very much on several factors : the type of lung cancer , the stage of cancer , the way the cells grow , the size of the tumor , where it is placed and the way other parts of the body have been affected .

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The patients present besides  , the lung cancer symptoms  which has to do  with the effects of the tumors , other effects which are linked with the metastatic tumors in other parts of their bodies . The most common symptoms of cancer are  : terrible cough , shortness of breath , chest pain , coughing blood , feeling tired always , losing weight without diet or making any sport at all . Sometimes you can have  fluid in the lungs and this has another effect on body because cancer can spread to other parts of the body and cells which are normal can become infected with carcinogens.  There can be : disturbances of hormones , blood or other systems can be harmed  and apart from these can appear effects due to the treatment applied , or to the type of cancer or whether the lung cancer is metastatic or not . Lung cancer often can affect the liver , the adrenal glands , the bones or the brain.



If we refer to metastatic cancer , it is important to point out that if it affects the liver , it does  not  cause symptoms even if the cancer has been discovered . Such a problem occurs also when the cancer affects the adrenal glands . Metastasis to the bones is one of the most common effects of cancer on body especially if the tumors develop small cancer cells . Such effects cause bone pains , usually in the backbone , thighbones and ribs .

More effects occur when lung ,metastatic cancer affects the brain . It can cause many difficulties : the patients starts to have problems with : vision , weakness on one side of the body or even both and it can also affect seizures .



So it is important to take care of our health and to avoid as much as possible the factors that can create really big health problems . If you think smoking – the main cause for lung cancer – it is easier to quit than to cure lung cancer the many other effects that is has on body .