The smoking caused lung cancer: a drug difficult to treat,
Source: health heaven Author: vincent Published date: 2009-10-25
The world each year, 1.2 million new cases of lung cancer. China is a smoker "great country", death by lung cancer is the first year, 60 million patients have died.
Proposed to adopt anti stricter smoking measures
Vice-President of the People's Hospital of Guangdong Province, said Prof. Wu Yilong, the mechanism of cancer that smoking causes lung cancer, go to a "K-ras channels, mainly for carcinoma squamous cell carcinoma, small cell, non-smoking caused lung cancer is taking the "human growth factor receptor (EGFR) means" and non-small-cell lung cancer.
The advanced lung cancer have no chance to surgery, can rely on medication, take the K-ras in lung cancer, this path is not sensitive to chemotherapy drugs, the effectiveness of chemotherapy only 30% to 40%, there is no therapy that is targeted, how this way of lung cancer, EGFR there are many drug options, in addition to chemotherapy, there many targeted therapies.
Wu Long, said: "God is just, smoking was responsible for the drug against lung cancer is difficult to decide, but as long as non-smokers can be effective in preventing, without smokers affected by pollution of environment and other factors will also have lung cancer, but effective drugs are.
CSCO Chairman Ma Jun said that China should learn from Japan and other developed countries to adopt anti stricter smoking measures, as a total ban on smoking in public places, pictures printing packages of cigarettes of various types of cancer.
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