Until now, cancer became the most feared disease by all people around the world. This disease becomes a frightening specter because paing often cause death of the sufferer.
Meanwhile, the definition of cancer itself yakani abnormal cell growth. The cell will expand rapidly, invade around it, and then spread elsewhere quickly. It is also rigid for lung cancer.
Just so you know every time you breathe is not impossible will be the cause of lung cancer. It is also expressed by Dr. Elisna Syahruddin, Ph.D., Sp.P (K) from the Department of Pulmonology and Respiratori FKUI / RSUP Pesahabatan, in Jakarta.
He said if the lungs of humans are like plants, sometimes normal with healthy plants, but of course the plants are always seeds of disease. 'As plants sometimes look normal and healthy, but there are always seeds of growing disease. Likewise in the lungs, whenever breathing will occur damage to the mucosa or mucous membranes, respiratory tract or mouth and lungs' he said.
However, it is not so easy that the damaged cells will turn into cancer. Because the lungs themselves have a solid mechanism that each cell is damaged, the mechanism will fix it.
But problems will arise when the immune system of the body is no longer able to clean the seeds of cancer. Moreover, the body's cells have a cell-spatial program called opoptosis. According to Elisna's explanation the program makes the damaged or old cells commit suicide so that the balance of the body is always running.
While in abnormal cells, this program is not running, so he can grow out of control then become cancer. According to him the life expectancy of cancer patients is still low because there is still much we do not know about cancer.
'Of the 10 people who had lung cancer, 8 people died of the world. To grow 1 cm, lung cancer takes about 10 years. So even though everyone in Indonesia quit smoking today, the seeds of cancer have begun to grow. Peak age of lung cancer patients at the age of 40 years' said Dr Elisna when met in the show did not Show 'Immunotherapy Enter In the PDPI Guide for Lung Cancer Treatment' in this week's Jakata.