The symptoms of weak lungs are pain or discomfort when breathing in or out, coughing up blood or mucus, a cough that does not go away, decreased ability to exercise, feeling like you're not getting enough air, shortness of breath and trouble breathing.
Lung disease does not go away and there's no cure for lung disease although treatments can help slow the progression of the lung disease and improve your quality of life.
Treatments for lung disease can include oxygen and even bronchodilator medication to open your airways.
Lung disease can be caused by several things such as infections, bacteria, pollutants, cigarette smoke, breathing secondhand smoke, breathing in smoke from burning things, radon gas, asbestos as well as chemicals such as arsenic, vinyl chloride, beryllium and uranium.
Incurable lung disease is called pulmonary fibrosis which is a rare lung disease which causes scarring of the lungs that is irreversible.
The scarring of the lungs from pulmonary fibrosis can cause shortness of breath and persistent cough that progressively becomes worse over time.
The most serious lung disease is COPD which is the 3rd leading cause of death in people in the U.S.
Pulmonary Fibrosis is also another serious lung disease and lung cancer is even more serious of a disease of the lung which is also fatal.
The different types of lung disease are.
Asthma.
Collapse of part or all of the lung (pneumothorax or atelectasis)
Swelling and inflammation in the main passages (bronchial tubes) that carry air to the lungs (bronchitis)
COPD.
Lung cancer.
Lung infection (pneumonia)
Abnormal buildup of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema)
The signs of lung disease are.
Trouble breathing.
Shortness of breath.
Feeling like you're not getting enough air.
Decreased ability to exercise.
A cough that won't go away.
Coughing up blood or mucus.
Pain or discomfort when breathing in or out.
Shortness of breath, especially during physical activities.
Wheezing.
Chest tightness.
A chronic cough that may produce mucus (sputum) that may be clear, white, yellow or greenish.
Frequent respiratory infections.
Lack of energy.
Unintended weight loss (in later stages)
Swelling in ankles, feet or legs.
When death is near with lung cancer the person will often sweat and the skin will feel wet and clammy even though the persons skin is cool.
Other signs that death is near with lung cancer are the person stops eating and drinking as they will not feel thirsty or hungry and the persons breathing will also often change.
When you have stage 4 lung cancer you can expect things such as pain and fractures, when cancer has spread to the bone. headache, seizures, or dizziness, when cancer has spread to the brain. shortness of breath, when cancer has spread to the lung. jaundice or swelling in the belly, when cancer has spread to the liver.
The longest survival for stage 4 lung cancer is 6.8 years.
Approximately 16% of people with lung cancer survive more than 5 years after their initial diagnosis.
Various factors influence a person's life expectancy estimate following a diagnosis of lung cancer.
Chemo doesn't shorten your life and in some cases chemo can extend your life.
Sometimes chemo may get rid of certain cancers completely while other cancers may remain but be prevented from getting worse while on chemo.
Some people on chemo live for 3 to 12 months on chemo and for others they may live 2 to 4 years on chemo.
And in some cases the chemo may actually get rid of the cancer completely and the person can live a normal lifespan.
Cancer can still spread even while someone is on chemo.
While most chemo is successful at getting rid of cancer and keeping the cancer from spreading it's still possible for cancer to spread when on chemo.
You can sleep next to someone with chemo and even have sex with someone with chemo as long as the person is feeling up to it.
The chemo poses very little risks to other people around the chemo patient.
Cancer is least likely to develop in people under the age of 20 years of age and those over 80 years of age.
The incidence rates for cancer overall climb steadily as age increases, from fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 people in age groups under age 20, to about 350 per 100,000 people among those aged 45–49, to more than 1,000 per 100,000 people in age groups 60 years and older.
You cannot smell cancer itself but sometimes tumors that develop with cancer can cause some unpleasant odors.
For the average person it's not easy to detect the smell of cancer, but they may notice changes in the odor of body fluids when they're receiving treatment for cancer.
The sense of smell may be more sensitive to people undergoing cancer treatments.
Strong odors, such as those in foods, are especially offending.
The slowest growing cancer is Carcinoid Cancer.
You can have Carcinoid cancer for several years without knowing it which is why it's called a slow growing cancer.
The deadliest cancers are lung cancer, colerectal cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer.
Lung and bronchus cancer is responsible for the most deaths with 130,180 people expected to die from this disease.
That is nearly three times the 52,580 deaths due to colorectal cancer, which is the second most common cause of cancer death.
Pancreatic cancer is the third deadliest cancer, causing 49,830 deaths.
The five types of cancer are Lymphoma, Leukemia, Melanoma, Carcinoma and Sarcoma.
When a cancer patient stops eating or drinking it means the cancer patient is in the last stages of the cancer is the cancer patients body is shutting down and preparing for death.