Lung Cancer Informative Speech

Cancer harms the body when altered cells divide uncontrollably to form lumps or masses of tissues called tumors except in the case of leukemia where cancer prohibits normal blood function by abnormal cell division in the blood stream. What is cancer is you might ask cancer is uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body which cancer develops when the body’s normal control mechanism stops working and old cells do not die and cells grow out of control, forming new, abnormal cells and the extra cells may form a mass of tissue which is tumors some cancers as leukemia do not form tumors. There are five main categories
One is carcinomas begins in the skin or tissue that line the internal organs, the second one sarcomas develops in the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, or the connective tissues the …show more content…
Most cancers result in tumors but those that affect the blood do not and also cancer can occur in any part of your body. Smoking more than 90% of all lung cancer cases are caused by smoking and 22% of all cancer deaths are due to lung cancer resulting from smoking. Tobacco product use is the most preventable cause of cancer worldwide. Survival rates for lung cancer are less 20% and if your smoker who’s exposed to inhaled toxins where you work, your chance of survival drops to just over 3%. It’s the carcinogenic chemicals used in the process of manufacturing tobacco products that cause cancer-causing and over 4,000 chemicals. Someone dies from lung cancer every every 30 seconds around the world. In economically developed countries, 58% of cancer diagnoses are in people 65 years of age or older. In developing countries, people over 65 account for 40%of new cancer cases. You may experience no symptoms of of ovarian cancer, lung cancer, or colon cancer until the cancer cells spread to other areas of body. Screening is imperative to catching these