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ID 113743
Title Alternative
Prevention of COPD and lung cancer
COPD・肺がんの予防
Author
Nakase, Katsunori Tokushima City Medical Association
Toyosaki, Matome Tokushima City Medical Association
Utsunomiya, Masato Tokushima City Medical Association
Keywords
COPD
lung cancer
smoking cessation
detection survey
Content Type
Journal Article
Description
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a long-standing, crippling disease characterized by the accelerated decline of lung function, commonly brought by aging and long-time inhalation of toxic chemicals such as tobacco smoking. Consequently, most COPD patients suffer from chronic cough, sputum and dyspnea on exertion. Moreover, in addition to the decline of lung function due to the destruction of the alveolar structure, COPD is closely related to other diseases such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, muscle dysfuncion, and lung cancer. Therefore, COPD is currently recognized as a systemic disease that the comprehensive management and care are necessary. Although COPD represents an increasing burden throughout the world and is one of the major causes of death word-wide, the issue has been arisen that the recognition of COPD in the general society is still low, especially in Japan. On the other hand, lung cancer is a life-threatening disease with the leading cause of malignancy-related death world-wide, the etiology of which is also closely related to tobacco smoking. Because the pathogenesis and the mortality of COPD and lung cancer are closely related each other, the action to prevent these diseases could be made simultaneously, primarily by the smoking cessation and the detection survey. In this article, we describe the present situation of COPD and lung cancer, the importance of smoking cessation, and the effort of Tokushima City Medical Association to manage COPD in Tokushima.
Journal Title
Shikoku Acta Medica
ISSN
00373699
NCID
AN00102041
Publisher
徳島医学会
Volume
75
Issue
1-2
Start Page
23
End Page
30
Sort Key
23
Published Date
2019-04-25
EDB ID
FullText File
language
jpn
TextVersion
Publisher
departments
Medical Sciences