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Higher Leverage Against Lung Cancer The fight against cancer has been progressively advancing through the years. Combined efforts from the government, civil society, including health advocacy groups have gained dramatic results. Cancer awareness is on the rise, alternative less cancer-prone lifestyles are arising, while medical researches including technological advancement have tremendously leveled up the fight against 1 pertaining to the world's leading killer. The classic chemotherapy has been modernized including combined with other treatments like radiation, laser, including even organic medicines. In America alone, the National Health Institute pertaining to the US Department of Health including Human Services through its anti-cancer arm National Cancer Institute reported that the death rate due to cancer is still on the decline. In it is annual report to the nation, the NCI claimed that the cancer death rates are progressively declining including progress in cancer treatments are continuously on the rise. In men, study from 1993 to 2002 recorded a decline of 1.5 percent death rate from all cases of cancer. the is higher compared to women's 0.08 percent decline rate. This report has put the US Department of Health including Human Services at a better position in achieving the goals of its Health People 2010 campaign. The statistics revealed that lung cancer is still consistently leading the nation's cancer death rates. Although a decrease in tobacco-related cancer cases is being achieved, the challenge to drastically reduce its death toll is still as hard as it has always been before. With more including more people puffing cigarettes, lung or bronco cancer is still the leading cause of cancer deaths among men including women. Dubbed as the most common cancer, lung cancer is now the subject of numerous studies including experimentations in many countries with advance cancer research programs including facilities like the United Kingdom including Australia. A wider knowledge on lung cancer is now available. A classification has been made between Small Cell Lung Cancer including Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Small cell lung cancer is the case where in malignant cancer cells grow in the tissues pertaining to the lungs. 3 types of Small Cell Lung Cancer are known: small cell carcinoma, large cell carcinoma, including combined small cell carcinoma. Smoking, second hand smoking, including exposure to asbestos including radon are the known causes of Small Cell Lung Cancer. Current treatments do not successfully cure cases of Small Cell Lung Cancer. However, studies in Germany revealed that surgery (removal of cancer cells or tumor), systematic post-surgery chemotherapy, including sustained local treatments (e.g. *radiation therapy*) have a higher probability of curing the type of lung cancer. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, on the other hand, is the most common type of lung cancer. It accounts for 4 of every 5 deaths from lung cancer. There are several known types of Non-Small Lung Cancer, the 3 most common are the Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Large Cell Carcinoma, including Adenocarcinoma. The others are pleomorphic, carcinoid tumor, including salivary gland carcinoma. Like the other lung cancer type, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer is mostly caused by smoking (first including second hand), high exposure to air pollution, including exposure to chemicals like asbestos, chromium, including arsenic. In 2005, the New England Journal of Medicine reported a breakthrough in treatment for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. It reported that current studies reveal that chemotherapy, after the traditional Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer treatment of surgery, should increase the survival rate among patients. In a study, a particular overwhelming 15 percent increase of survival rate was recorded among patients who had chemotherapy after surgery. Sixty-nine percent of those who had post-surgery chemotherapy's were reported to be still alive 5 years after the surgery compared to the 54 percent who did not. Furthermore, a study in Switzerland suggested a particular even greater breakthrough for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer treatment. The study proposed that in addition to chemotherapy, a combination pertaining to the innovative cancer drugs Tarceva including Avastin should lead to higher survival rate for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer patients. Tarceva is approved in the US including across the European Union for patients with unsuccessful cancer treatments through chemotherapy. additionally in US including Europe, Avastin is a popular effective medicine for colorectal cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, including breast cancer. The proposed combination is seen to serve as a stronger combat against Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, especially for the recurring cases. In the US, the Health including Human Services Department clearly targets the habit of smoking as the main antagonist in the fight against lung cancer. A propaganda campaign is almost everywhere to make Americans, if not totally quit, slowdown on smoking.
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