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Lung cancer prevention forum

EVERY day in Shanghai nearly two dozen people are diagnosed with lung cancer, which accounts for one quar­ter of all cancer deaths in the city, medical experts told a forum over the weekend.

Lung cancer is also the top cancer in the country, with 600,000 new patients every year, a figure that is expected to grow to 1 million by 2025, experts said.

The increase is attributable to the growing elderly population, smoking and air pollution.

“The key for lung cancer prevention and control is to stop smoking and avoid second-hand smoking and get­ting regular health checkups for early detection,” said Dr Wang Qun from Zhongshan Hospital. “about 80 per­cent of lung cancer cases are found in the middle and late stages, missing the best time for surgery.”

Lung cancer is divided into small-cell lung cancer, which accounts for 15 percent of cases, and non-small-cell lung cancer, which accounts for 85 percent.

Extensive research is being conduct­ed in China that scientists hope will lead to more effective treatments.

Anew drug targeting non-small-cell lung cancer patients is under clinical trial in both China and the US, experts told the Queenstown Mo­lecular Biology Meetings in Shanghai over the weekend.


 

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