sábado, 8 de noviembre de 2014

CDC - Lung Cancer Awareness Feature

CDC - Lung Cancer Awareness Feature



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Lung Cancer Awareness

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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most common cancer among both men and women in the United States.

What You Can Do to Lower Your Risk

You can help lower your risk of lung cancer in the following ways—
  • Don’t smoke. The most important thing you can do to prevent lung cancer is to not start smoking, or to quit if you smoke.
  • Avoid secondhand smoke. Smoke from other people’s cigarettes, pipes, or cigars is calledsecondhand smoke. Make your home and car smoke-free.
  • Get your home tested for radon. The second leading cause of lung cancer is radon, a naturally occurring gas that comes from rocks and dirt and can get trapped in houses and buildings.

Fast Facts

  • Each year, about 200,000 people in the United States are told they have lung cancer and more than 150,000 people die from this disease.
  • About 90% of lung cancers are linked with cigarette smoking.
  • When a person breathes in secondhand smoke, it is like he or she is smoking. In the United States, about 7,300 people who never smoked die from lung cancer due to secondhand smoke every year.
  • After increasing for decades, lung cancer rates are decreasing nationally, as fewer people smoke cigarettes.
  • Smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in the body. Smoking causes cancers of the lung, mouth, nose, throat, voicebox (larynx), esophagus, liver, bladder, kidney, pancreas, colon, rectum, cervix, stomach, blood, and bone marrow (acute myeloid leukemia).

Featured Resources

Lung Cancer in African-American Men infographic
Our “Lung Cancer in African-American Men” infographicencourages African-American men to quit smoking to protect themselves and their families from lung cancer.
Lung Cancer Disease of the Week
Test your knowledge about lung cancer with a simple quiz on our Disease of the Week application!
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The “No Good Alternatives to Cigarettes” podcastdiscusses the increasing use of non-cigarette forms of smoked tobacco.
Radon promising practices brief
Our Household Radon promising practices brief[PDF-494KB] explains what can be done to reduce lung cancer deaths caused by radon in homes.
When Smoking Affects Your Family, It’s Personal video
Almost everyone has lost a friend or relative from tobacco use. “When Smoking Affects Your Family, It’s Personal” explores some of those personal stories.
In this blog post, CDC scientist Jane Henley shares her mother’s story: “My mother tried to quit smoking cigarettes almost every day of her life. After her diagnosis, she did succeed and stayed smoke-free until her last breath, 14 months later.”

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