A man from New Jersey died of an aggressive lung cancer who, according to doctors, may have been caused by e-cigarettes-in which is considered the first case of his kind.
The 51-year-old patient, who was not mentioned, had evaporated more than a decade after giving up traditional cigarettes in 2009.
He sought medical help in 2020 after the suffering of chest pain, shortness of breath, weight loss and coughing up blood.
In his left lung, doctors discovered a tumor about the size of a pack of cards. He had a cancer that is normally associated with heavy tobacco use.
Yet his last chest scan was completely clear two years earlier, so his medical team believed that Vapen may have played a role.
Because the tumor had spread in the tissue around his heart, an operation was excluded.
He started chemotherapy, but the disease progressed quickly and he died only three months after his diagnosis.
His case, published in the American Journal of Case Reports, is considered the first to suggest a possible connection between vapen and cancer in people.
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Previous studies had only demonstrated such associations at laboratory animals.
Doctors of Atlanticare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, who treated him, wrote: ‘Although causality cannot be determined, the case emphasizes a potentially between e-cigarette use and malignancy.
“Further research is needed to investigate the long-term effects of e-cigarettes and their possible role in the development and progression of lung cancer.”
Although there have been a handful of cases of earlier cancer in which people who found courses were older, many of those patients were older and they had a long history of smoking tobacco, making it difficult to insulate the effects of vapen alone.
Dr. James Finigan, a pulmonologist who specializes in the treatment of lung nodules and lung cancer, said the Daily Mail: ‘Although the long -term effects of Vapen are still being studied, there are indications that the risk of cancer is four -time higher in people who have evaporated cigarettes and smoked cigarettes have only made any cigarettes have only been made of cigarettes smoked. ‘
The patient in New Jersey had stopped traditional cigarettes more than ten years earlier before turning to e-cigarettes and was relatively young, with a faster clinical decline and no reaction to chemotherapy.
The team wrote: ‘Although definitive conclusions cannot be drawn, the younger age of our patient, limited flammable tobacco smoke growth, fast tumor growth, lack of response to chemotherapy and accelerated clinical decline increase the possibility of a separate or aggressive disease pattern.
‘These differences lead to a consideration of potential contributing factors, including the long -term use of ends [electronic cigarettes]. ‘
E-cigarettes produce an aerosol by heating a liquid that usually contains nicotine, flavorings and a mixture of toxic chemicals.
When they are inhaled, this vapor can deliver harmful substances deep into the lungs, including formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and other volatile organic compounds that are known to cause cancer.
These substances can damage the lung tissue and over time this damage can lead to DNA mutations and inflammation that increase the risk of cancer.
In this case, the patient’s tumor occupies about two -thirds of his left lung by the time he was detected.
Tests revealed that he had squamous cell carcinoma (SSC) – a form of cancer that accounts for around 20 to 30 percent of all lung cancer diagnoses in the US.
There are around 226,000 new cases every year, of whom the vast majority are men and long -term smokers.
SCC is often considered a ‘silent murderer’ because it may not cause clear symptoms at an early stage.
When signs appear, they are often seen for less serious conditions – such as allergies, bronchitis or asthma.
If it is caught early, SCC has a survival percentage of about 50 percent. But as soon as it spreads beyond the lungs, that figure drops to only seven percent.
The New Jersey patient was initially fired after diagnosis, with plans to start treatment on an outpatient basis.
But within two weeks he returned to the hospital with severe pain. The tumor had become so great that it compressed its airways and made it difficult to breathe.
Doctors add a stent to open his lungs and he was prescribed radiation and chemotherapy.
But the cancer continued to spread and he died within two months.
The authors of the report now ask for more research into the cancer risks related to the use of e-cigarettes, in particular the more long-term users in the window get older when cancer usually appears.
They also propose to update criteria for the screening of cancer with chronic vapers – especially those with more than 10 years of use.
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“Early detection may have facilitated timely intervention in this case and have improved the clinical outcome,” the doctors wrote.
“Future research must investigate whether the use of e-cigarettes is an emerging risk factor that is worth considering in screening programs for lung cancer.”
Dr. Finigan added: “Early identification of lung cancer, either through screening or by properly identifying and managing incidentally identified lung lumps, is the most effective way to reduce the overall mortality of lung cancer.”
An estimated 16 million American adults-hevanger 6.5 percent of US population customs are currently e-cigarettes.
The highest percentages are seen in young adults aged 18 to 24, with more than 15 percent in that group that regularly reports use.
Among children, about 1.6 million high school students still have fell, although the use has fallen since the peak in 2019.
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