Lung cancer is the formation of abnormal cells that grown inside the lungs, these cells tend to grow and reproduce at a much faster speed than normal cells do. The abnormal cells grow together in small groups sticking to each other and forming what it’s known as a tumour. When the abnormal cells are formed inside the lung, this is then called a primary lunch tumour.
Terminal lung cancer is when the tumour inside the lung has become so aggressive that no form of treatment of operation can remove the tumour. If the tumour can’t be completely removed it will keep growing and eventually spread to other areas of the body.
Terminal lung cancer is the leading cause of death due to cancer in Australia, on average 8,500 people are diagnosed with lung cancer and 7,500 are diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and die each year. Smoking cigarettes is the number one cause of terminal lung cancer.
Terminal lung cancer although it can’t be cured, can still be treated. This is done to relieve the sever symptoms caused by terminal lung cancer. The treatment for lung cancer and terminal cancer are the same, but if lunch cancer is detected early enough, this treatment may stop the cancer before it becomes terminal.
The treatments are Chemotherapy , radiotherapy, surgery and laser therapy.
Chemotherapy is a course of anti-cancer drugs that attempt to kill the active cancer cells, radiotherapy is a series of high powered energy rays that destroy cancer cells, surgery is the removal of the tumour and laser treatment is used to clear the airways which are being blocked by the cluster of cancer cells.
A combination of all these treatments can be used depending on the success or failure of each treatment, but none of the above can guarantee the disease has been successfully treated.