It was found that around eleven times , the people with tuberculosis are susceptible to lung cancer than the ones without it. So it is a wide concern to link this disease to a similar disease, lung cancer. People always analyze the causes and don’t consider the infections that causes the cancer. Tuberculosis is a wide spread disease , almost one third of the world population are affected because of it. These studies shows that people with the former disease are having lung cancer but it is still not proven that tuberculosis are a cause for it.

Researchers took review on some one lakh people in china with and without tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is widely increasing throughout the world especially in the United States. Some of the known infections are HPV and hepatitis C. Roughly some, one fourth of the cancers worldwide are caused due to infections with viruses, bacteria or parasites. So it is a wide concern to link this disease to a similar disease, lung cancer. So people should be made aware of the risk of causing lung cancer as well as the risk of its own effects , thus mitigating the number of victims.

Nicotine is a drug that is present in the cigarettes, once get addicted to it , it becomes more difficult to quit it. But there is always a way to do it. Smokers when decide or think about quitting, almost half the problem is solved. Quitting tobacco is possible; survey says around thousand do it successfully every year. Other than nicotine there are cocaine and heroin that are similar to it. It is mentally and psychologically proved that nicotine addiction is more powerful than the remaining two. When smokers are ready to quit they feel some kind of sadness, loss, anger, fear that tends to stop you from quitting it.

Changing our day to day habit is very difficult but it is quite important for smokers to reduce the risk of getting lung cancer. Researchers says that quitting due to the awareness of the harmful effects of it , stays permanent. Education always remains permanent in our brain. An important part to learn about quitting is to get involved in knowing about the tobacco and its effect on our health and lung cancer.

At present there are two approved for advancement in lung cancer. They are alimta and tarceva. The benefits however differ from individual to individual, tarceva works better for women who are non smokers and for non-small cell lung cancer. Alitma seems to be effective for patients with a particular type of mutation called the EFGR mutation in their cancer cells and studies have shown that it is better for adenocarcinoma and long cell lung cancer.

The World Health Organization, having taken the responsibility to control the spreading of this disease around the world, is taking steps by calling the nongovernmental organizations to provide awareness among the people about the causes and effects of the disease and thus how to prevent it .Also the major effects of it and about the difficulty of the treatment procedure is made clear to them. They make sure that the people who participate in the awareness program are very well concerned about their family, relatives and friends so that the awareness is spread to a larger extent.

A slight error in focusing may lead to damage of the normal cells nearby creating abnormality in the body physically. So, proper advise from experienced researchers and oncologists is needed to undergo this treatment. If at all there is no other way to go with any other treatment , it is best to take up with this. It is very essential to analyze whether the benefits outweighs the side effects or the ill effects and the efficiency, when considering any type of treatment.