What? My Dad? Lung Cancer?
That's Not Possible!
Yes, that's right, my dad had lung cancer and we just knew about it four months before he passed away. And it was a slap in my face. Why? Because I am into medical course and that made me really upset. We were really very depressed with what we learned about my dad's disease. My family didn't know how to comfort him when we knew about it.
So what is lung cancer?
It is a disease that starts in the human lungs, that's right, the part of the body in which we breathe. It is also called Bronchogenic Carcinoma. This results from an abnormality in the cell, which we know as the smallest part of our body and is the basic unit of life. Usually it is not detected until late.
If the body cannot maintain its system of balance on cell growth, it will be disrupted, thus, cell production will be uncontrolled and will form a mass which is called tumor.
Wait! Tumor? Is that possible?
Yes, it is very possible. Tumor is a collection of cells that has the ability to move around the body or just stay in a certain body part and usually removed with no problem.
There are two types of tumors:
1. Benign tumor - it is the type of tumor that just stays in a certain body part and is not able to travel around the body. This is usually removed and no other problems arise.
2. Malignant tumor - this is the tye of tumor that is related to cancer. This has the ability to invade other tissues and body parts. They grow very fast and doesn't undergo the normal process of how a normal cell divides. They just divide and divide and divide making them an alien or foreign article in our body.
That's something. How do they travel?
Malignant tumors grow so fast that every cell they touch gets invaded and grow again. Since our body is a connecting unit from each of its body parts, it's really just fast once they get to the bloodstream and or the lymph nodes to be able to reach other specific body part to grow another malignant tumor.
Lymph nodes, what is it?
Lymph nodes are small ball-like structure organs of our body specifically of the immune system. They act as filters or traps of foreign articles in our body. They become inflamed or enlarged when we have some infections in our body. Also, lymph nodes is very useful in determining the lung cancer staging which helps for its treatment.
Where will those malignant tumor likely to travel?
There are body parts that the malignant tumor or cancer cells can travel, the term we call for the spreading of cancer cell is metastasis while the areas of tumor growths in distanst sites is called metastases.
Adrenal glands, liver, brain, and bone are the most common sites for metastases for lung cancer.
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