It is true that lung cancer is increasing, and it is well known that it has become a common chronic lung disease in people’s lives. Although lung cancer is so common, its curative effect is still unsatisfactory, which has become a permanent pain in the hearts of many cancer friends and their families. Many netizens know that over 50 years old is the high incidence age of lung cancer. Lung cancer can be prevented, and through early treatment, a radical cure for lung cancer can be obtained, so that patients can live a satisfactory survival time and a good quality of life. Therefore, for people over 50 years old, taking the following lung cancer prevention and treatment measures will have the opportunity to keep you away from the risk of lung cancer.

First, avoid contact with various carcinogenic factors, it is possible to avoid or reduce the chance of lung cancer.

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It is well known that smoking is the most common cause of lung cancer, and clinical studies show that 85% of lung cancer patients have a history of smoking. And the longer you smoke and the more you smoke, the greater your risk of lung cancer. On the contrary, the risk of developing lung cancer gradually decreases with the extension of smoking cessation time. Therefore, for people over the age of 50, if they do not have lung cancer, they can reduce the risk of lung cancer by avoiding exposure to high-risk factors such as smoking.

Occupational environmental factors are also one of the risk factors for lung cancer. Asbestos, arsenic, bischloromethyl ether, chromium, mustard gas, nickel, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, radon and radon gas, ionizing radiation and microwave radiation produced by the decay of radioactive substances such as uranium and radium in the environment. These environments can increase the risk of lung cancer by 3-30 times. For people over the age of 50 who are engaged in these occupations, we must not only do occupational protection, but also ensure as little or no exposure to these occupational risk factors as possible. Thereby reducing the risk of occupational lung cancer. In addition, we should remind everyone that because the formation of lung cancer is a long process, the incubation period of occupational carcinogenic risks can reach 20 years or more. Many people develop lung cancer after they stop being exposed to these carcinogens. Therefore, more standardized regular lung cancer screening is necessary for such people with occupational cancer risk.

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Air pollution is also the cause of the high incidence of lung cancer. In the air, benzopyrene, arsenic oxide, radioactive substances, nickel, chromium compounds, SO2, NO and non-combustible aliphatic hydrocarbons. There are also oil fumes from cooking and heating, as well as indoor incomplete combustion, etc., which are all risk factors that increase the incidence of lung cancer. For people over 50 years old, we should go to places with serious outdoor pollution as little as possible, and use indoor ventilation and kitchen range hoods to reduce the chance of exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollution.

In addition, pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary sarcoidosis, pulmonary fibrosis and other diseases are all related to the occurrence of lung cancer. Therefore, for people over 50 years old with these lung diseases, attention should be paid to timely treatment of such lung diseases to reduce the risk of lung cancer caused by such lung diseases.

The second is to reduce the risk of middle and advanced lung cancer through early lung cancer screening.

For people over 50 years old, the cost of annual health check-up is completely affordable, and over 50 years old itself is a high risk factor for lung cancer. Whether there are other high-risk factors for lung cancer, annual low-dose thin-section chest CT examination is required. If there are multiple high-risk factors for lung cancer at the same time, especially those with clinical manifestations of lung disease, even semi-annual low-dose thin-section chest CT examination is valuable.

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In addition, for people with suspected lung cancer risk such as pulmonary nodules, they can find several more experienced lung cancer experts for consultation, distinguish them, and reduce the risk of missed diagnosis of lung cancer. Even if many experts rule out the risk of lung cancer, they should not take it lightly and do a good job in the follow-up of pulmonary nodules. Avoid the risk of lung cancer caused by delayed diagnosis and treatment when benign nodules turn into malignant nodules.

The third is to improve the ability to resist the risk of lung cancer.

At present, people over 50 years old can be said to have no worries about food and clothing. However, while living a prosperous life, we should also pay attention to eating more vegetables and fruits to reduce the risk of lung cancer, especially eating more vegetables rich in carotene will reduce the risk of lung cancer. In addition, pay attention to properly engaging in moderate and high-intensity physical labor or sports. to reduce the risk of lung cancer. In addition, you should also maintain a good mood at ordinary times, pay attention to a regular life and rest, and ensure adequate sleep to reduce the risk of lung cancer. As for whether to improve the human body’s anti-lung cancer ability by taking health products, due to the lack of sufficient scientific basis, this aspect is neither advocated nor opposed.