LungBlog

Fruits probably protect against lung cancer as well, and various vegetables protect against other cancers. For example, garlic probably protects against bowel cancer, and foods containing the antioxidant lycopene – processed tomatoes, for example –probably protect against prostate cancer.

 Let’s face it, Americans are obsessed with breasts. Sometimes an obsession can prove positive, like when it promotes greater awareness and increased funding to fight breast cancer. Unfortunately, another kind of cancer, lung cancer, causes almost twice as many deaths among women. That’s why National Lung Cancer Partnership today launched a national, multi-media public service announcement (PSA) campaign to inform women about their risk for lung cancer and urge them to find out more about this deadly disease.

Most people assumethat cancer is genetic and cannot be avoided. However, according to the
American Cancer Society, healthy behaviors could prevent approximately half of cancer deaths. Below is a list of 10 lifestyle changes, all based on the latest research, which people can make to improve their odds of preventing cancer or catching it at its earliest, most curable stages.

You can’t see, smell or taste radon.

You’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times – the big three things you can do to prevent cancer are eat right, exercise, and don’t smoke cigarettes. But according to a new study, many people don’t think that there’s much of anything they can do to prevent cancer. 

There is no cancer from which someone has not been cured. That hopeful message is one that inspired Gallup resident Kathleen Houlihan when she battled lung cancer in 1999, and it’s a message she continues to share with other cancer patients today.Houlihan and recent cancer patient Michael Sullivan recently talked about their years as smokers, their diagnosis with lung cancer, their fight against the disease and their messages for both smokers and nonsmokers alike.

Drinking wine is associated with a lower risk of developing lung cancer, according to a meta-analysis published in the November issue of Cancer Epidemiological Markers & Prevention. Those who consume more than one serving of beer or spirits in any amount, however, were found to have an elevated risk.

The preventive effect of apples is not, however, limited to digestive tract cancers. A study conducted among 125,000 Americans showed people who regularly consumed one apple a day had 20 per cent less chances of developing lung cancer. A similar protection has also been observed in Finland.

Researchers are adding to the list of cancer types for which pomegranates seem to halt growth. A recent study using a mouse model shows that consuming pomegranates could potentially help reduce the growth and spread of lung cancer cells or even prevent lung cancer from developing.

Lightening up instead of lighting up is the best thing to do to fight lung cancer. New research shows that giving up smoking can reduce the risk of dying from the disease by up to 70 percent.