Lung cancer: prevent or treat?

Abstract

Cancer is currently one of the most serious health problems of humanity, it is among the first as a cause of death in developed and developing countries, with a tendency to continue to rise and occupy the absolute first place for the year 2025 also, because its diagnosis is made in advanced stages, it is estimated that its incidence will double by the year 2030 as a result of population growth and aging and that it may affect all ages, even those fetuses.

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“…Only 20% of cases have localized disease, 25% have it spread to regional lymph nodes, and 55% already suffer from distant metastases. Once diagnosed, they have a very poor prognosis, since only 15% of cases can be cured [13]. This patient came in an advanced stage of his disease, presenting lymph node and liver metastases.…”