What is the most effective way to prevent lung cancer? Eight actions to prevent lung cancer

According to the test results released by the Disease Prevention and Control Agency, lung cancer has become the number one cancer that affects patients' lives. Men who love to smoke may not care about this, but smoking is really the biggest killer of lung cancer. So in addition to smoking moderately, what is the most effective way to prevent lung cancer? The following eight tips will teach you how to prevent lung cancer.

Action 1: Don’t be superstitious about filters

The relationship between smoking and lung cancer is very clear. According to data, cigarettes and smoke contain more than 3,000 chemical substances, including more than 40 carcinogens and more than ten cancer inducers. The more you smoke and the longer you smoke, the higher the risk of lung cancer.

Some smokers have a misunderstanding that adding filters will reduce the risk of lung cancer, but this is not true. Filters only filter out tar and nicotine, but they cannot filter out carcinogens. Instead, they make smoke particles smaller and increase the risk of lung adenocarcinoma. Data show that before the appearance of filters, squamous cell lung cancer ranked first among lung cancers, followed by lung adenocarcinoma and small cell lung cancer. After the appearance of filters, lung adenocarcinoma has jumped to the top, leaving squamous cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer far behind.

Action 2: Say NO to secondhand and thirdhand smoke

Many people know that secondhand smoke and thirdhand smoke (referring to the tobacco smoke residues left on clothes, walls, carpets, furniture and even hair and skin after smokers "puff and exhale". Studies have found that these residues can exist for days, weeks or even months) are bad, but they may not know that secondhand smoke and thirdhand smoke are more harmful than firsthand smoke. The particles carrying carcinogens in the smoke of secondhand smoke and thirdhand smoke are finer and more easily inhaled directly into the lungs. Therefore, if you see someone smoking around you, you should boldly say NO!

Action 3: Drive less and avoid traffic jams

In traffic congestion areas and highway entrances and exits, because cars are idling and fuel is not completely burned, there are more than 200 carcinogens in the exhaust gas. Therefore, it is recommended that you stay less in traffic congestion areas. Many people think that solving air quality problems is the government's responsibility. Professor Wu Yilong believes that the government should play a major role, but as an individual, if you have a public-spirited heart, such as not buying a car, driving less, and causing less "congestion" in the city, you will naturally breathe less exhaust gas.

Action 4: Clean the air conditioner regularly

Due to air pollution, many people are keen to create a safe environment at home, so air purifiers have become popular in recent years. Professor Wu Yilong believes that air purifiers are useless and there is no need to waste money on them. Instead, families using air conditioners should pay attention to cleaning the air conditioners regularly to reduce the occurrence of respiratory diseases and reduce irritation to the respiratory tract.

Action 5: Don’t be afraid of kitchen fumes

Recently, it was reported that cooking fumes may be one of the risk factors for lung cancer in women. This has made "housewives" tremble with fear and fall into a dilemma. Will the whole family go out to eat every day in the future? In fact, there is no need to worry about this. Professor Wu Yilong explained that in the 1970s, cooking was mostly done with firewood or coal. The mixture of cooking fumes and coal smoke, especially in poor indoor ventilation, did increase the risk of lung cancer in women. But now the cooking environment has changed dramatically. Every family uses a range hood, and natural gas or liquefied gas does not produce much smoke after burning. Therefore, women will not increase their risk of lung cancer because of cooking.

Action 6: Eat more fruits and vegetables instead of taking health supplements

In recent years, the health care product market has been very prosperous. Many health care products claim to be antioxidants, such as vitamin C, vitamin E, deep-sea fish oil, etc., which have anti-cancer effects. But what is the truth? Professor Wu Yilong introduced that a large-scale study was launched globally a few years ago, but it was stopped after two-thirds of the study. The study found that artificially processed antioxidants not only cannot reduce the incidence of lung cancer, but also increase the risk of lung cancer. But this does not mean that antioxidants are bad. If antioxidants are present in natural foods, such as vegetables and fruits, then eating them does have the effect of reducing the occurrence of cancer. Therefore, it is better to eat more vegetables and fruits than to take health care products!

Action 7: Perform a low-dose spiral CT scan once a year

People over 40 should have a low-dose spiral CT scan once a year, which costs about 400 yuan and is affordable for most families. This type of examination does very little harm to the human body, but it can detect tiny lung cancers (0.6 cm), which are the earliest stage of lung cancer. This method of early detection of lung cancer has been recognized by the world two years ago. Studies have shown that low-dose spiral CT scans of 50,000 people can reduce the mortality rate by 20%, which means that one death can be reduced in five people!

Action 8: Be an optimistic person

When it comes to the issue of mentality, many people will feel that it is too empty, but in the face of cancer, the same treatment, different mentality may mean the difference between life and death. In clinical practice, when a patient is just diagnosed with cancer, everyone will be desperate and depressed. But people with a positive and optimistic mentality will get out of it faster, and the more optimistic the person, the better the treatment effect. On the contrary, depression and introversion will reduce the effect of treatment. From time to time, we hear that someone died of cancer soon. In fact, cancer itself will not take a person's life so quickly, but if a person is more pessimistic and has poor stress resistance, it will damage his immune system, and he may die quickly due to the collapse of his own immune system.

After reading the above points, you can probably understand that mentality plays a greater role in cancer than we think. Some experts pointed out that cancer patients generally have great anxiety, which is not good for cancer itself. Strong psychological intervention plays a big role in the treatment of cancer, so letting go of burdens and facing it optimistically is the mentality that lung cancer patients should maintain.