Bogordaily.net–Smoking is one of the main causes of pain lung cancer. Although the campaign of the dangers of smoking continue to be encouraged, but the prevalence of smokers in Indonesia continues to increase.
Basic Health Research Data or Riskesdas the Health Ministry recorded an increase in the prevalence of smoking in children aged 10 Years and above, from 28.8 percent in 2013 to 29.3 percent in 2018.
On the other hand, people still have the perception of ‘understatement’ and feel a lot of people don’t have lung cancer despite the years so active smokers.
“It often happens in today’s society, people will be pointed, ‘that grandfather is 90 years fucking smoke like a train aja does not suffer from lung cancer’. Indeed our difficulties in situ (to do education),” said a doctor of internal medicine, Subspecialty of Hematology-Medical Oncology, DR. dr. Andhika Rachman in virtual discussions reported by Suara.com.
In the science of cancer or oncology, he explained, there are factors genotype (genetic makeup) and phenotype (the environment). If both of these factors are met, then the person is at risk of suffering from cancer is larger than the others.
“So it’s not forever if someone would smoke suffering from lung cancer. Similarly, for example in the family there is a history of lung cancer, although smoking has not been certainly not going to suffer from lung cancer. It was actually that need to be taught to the community,” he said.
Meanwhile, the risk factors of lung cancer itself, there are six.
Executive director of Research of the Indonesian Association for the Study on Thoracic Oncology (IASTO) Professor Elisna Syahruddin, said that the main factor remains the habit of smoking.
“One of the rooms, the main factors. Second, a history of lung cancer in the family. It turns out that from research in China, the vulnerability to one of the people is very high,” he said.
In addition, the work place are also influential. Doctor Wita say, the people that work around the building projects have a risk of lung cancer is higher than that is not.***
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