The document discusses lung cancer in women. It notes that women are more prone to lung cancer than men in a proportion of 1:5. The main causes of lung cancer in women are smoking, air pollution, radon exposure, genetics, workplace hazards, secondhand smoke, and the presence of estrogen. Estrogen can catalyze the faster growth of lung cancer in women. The most common types of lung cancer for women are adenocarcinoma and bronchiovascular cancer. Preventive methods include avoiding tobacco, limiting secondhand smoke exposure, and eating a diet high in phytoestrogens.

1. The deadliest Lung
cancer on women and its
preventive methods

2. Lung cancer
• Lung cancer is one of the major disease
among both men and women in the
proportion of 1:5.
• The lung cancer is serious among all the
carcinogenic diseases and there are many
sources which informs that this type of cancer
is more in average which is also very
threatening.

3. Lung cancer on women
• Women are more prone to lung cancer
compared to men.
• Lung cancers in women causes the equal
damage and effect like the men.
• But there are some of the exception cases
where women get effected with this disease.
• The below slides shows the overview of lung
cancer caused to women and the preventive
methods.

5. Causes of lung cancer
• universally accepted cause of lung cancer is
“Smoking”. Despite this, there are many other
sources like
• Air pollution
• Exposing to radon
• Genetic disorder
• Work place exposure
• Passive tobacco intake
• Presence of estrogen

6. Role of estrogen in development of
lung cancer
• Estrogen is one of the hormone secreted in
the women to maintain the female
characteristics.
• The ovaries removed before the menopause
stage will give rise to the chance of developing
lung cancer.
• The estrogen catalyzes the growth of lung
cancer at very faster rate

7. Type of lung cancer on women
• Women are prone to adenocarcinoma which is
the type of Non-small cell lung cancer.
• This develop at the outer layer of the lung and
it increases at the faster rate.
• This type of cancer occur in non-smoking
women in and around the age of 50.

9. • There is another type of lung cancer called
Bronchiovascular lung cancer.
• This type of cancer occur amoung the non-
smoking women and they are deveoped in the
bronchi part of the lung.
• The young women are more prone to this type
of lung cancer.

10. Preventive methods
• The lung cancer prevention should be taken as
the mandate for the people with the family
history of lung cancer.
• And all the chain smoker women should be
very cautious about this deadly disease.
• The preventive methods are listed below with
proper justification.

11. 1. Avoid tobacco
• Smoking cannot be withdrawn at a stretch. It
should be gradually reduced.
• Tobacco intake, either through the trigger and
mouth should be reduced completely at
gradual rate

12. 2.Beware of Secondhand smoking
• There are places where women get exposed to
the tobacco exhalation from the chain smokers
either it may be the working place or the family.
• Recommend the person to avoid the smoking in
the public.

13. 3. Food with phytoestrogens
• Maintaining regular diet and excercising process,
will keep you away from lung cancer.
• The women has to take food rich in
phytoestrogens like soy foods, berries, wheat
barley, rice, carrots, apples, etc… to avoid the risk
of lung cancer.

14. • These are the overview of lung cancer in
women.
• Either it is women or men proper precautions
should be taken to avoid the most deadly
disease called “lung cancer”.
• To know more about the lung cancer in
women visit
http://lungcancersymptomsx.com/lung-
cancer-in-women.html

15. • Lung Cancer Symptoms is the blog which is
exclusively ingrained with stuffs regarding lung
cancer and the types of treatment methods.
• It is necessary for every human to gain
knowledge about the lung cancer inoreder to
be aware and spread awareness.
• http://lungcancersymptomsx.com/

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