“The high-risk group primarily includes smokers, as well as people working in the production of asbestos, paints and varnishes, in coal mines.

The average lung cancer patient is a male smoker in his 50s or 60s.

But often there are also such patients who have never smoked, have not worked in hazardous industries, and they have lung cancer.

In this case, we are talking about a combination of several circumstances: genetic factors (features of the work and division of cells in the body, hereditary predisposition) and the unfavorable influence of environmental factors, ”the expert explained.

Lung cancer is one of the few oncological diseases that can be prevented, RT interlocutor added.

“That’s enough to stop smoking.

According to various researchers, the risk of developing cancer in smokers is 10-12 times higher than in people who do not smoke.

International studies show that there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke.

Lung cancer is mostly detected late,” he said.

According to him, smokers need to do x-rays or x-rays once a year.

“Moreover, x-rays are more preferable.

CT would be even better, but it's expensive.

With regular examination, you can catch cancer at an early stage, and the less common the process, the more chances we have to help the patient, ”Astrakhantsev explained.

But, unfortunately, it also happens that a patient who has been repeatedly examined during the year can be diagnosed with an advanced form of the disease upon repeated treatment, the specialist added.

“This is due to the aggressiveness of lung cancer.

Treatment depends on the stage at which the disease was diagnosed.

Local forms of the tumor of the first and second stages, and in some cases stage 3A, are treated surgically.

Now organ-preserving interventions are being carried out, when a part, a lobe of the lung, is removed, ”the doctor explained.

He stressed that the standards of treatment are changing, and a multidisciplinary, combined, sometimes complex approach is increasingly being used.

“We carry out preoperative chemotherapy / chemoimmunotherapy, with advanced forms of cancer we can prescribe chemoradiotherapy.

Figuratively speaking, we collect a necklace from several types of treatment one bead at a time and achieve good results, ”said the oncologist.

Earlier, oncologist Denis Romanov told how to reduce the risk of cancer.