Tessa Ward





Lung Cancer: Survival Rates and Prognosis-


summary:
Experts suspect that there will be nearly 250,000 other Americans who are diagnosed with this cancer in 2017. 117,290 men and 106,470 women. Studies show that lung cancer is among the most deadly cancers in the world, with 12%-17% chance of survival. The survival rate for this is that low because most people don't discover it until the advanced stages of the cancer, and by then, it will have spread to other vital organs throughout the body, making it very hard to comeback from. Lung cancer is caused by smoking too much for too long. However, other studies prove that the amount of men being diagnosed with it have decreased nearly 40%, and women 13%. Doctors believe that the reason women are still at a higher percentage because it is harder for them to drop the bad habit of smoking than it is with men.



analysis:
I know that the death rates and the diagnosis rates for lung cancer will sufficiently decrease if people would simply not smoke. I understand that some people are addicted to the feeling that smoking can bring, and it can be hard to break that habit, but if they just think about the possibilities that can happen to them if they continue, i think that would be enough. Even smoking packets (with the cigarettes in them) warn the buyers that there is a high chance you will get sick.



source: http://inhealth.cnn.com/advances-in-immunotherapy/lung-cancer-survival-rates-and-prognosis?did=t1_atftxt