Monday, June 21, 2010

Lung Cancer Symptoms and Signs

Most lung cancer patients were at first a dry cough or cough with phlegm, usually in the morning. Prolonged cough, anti-inflammatory drugs, or no treatment effect. Half of the patients coughed less blood and sputum.

Cancer patients often have chest pain. Often there is no significant pain, same pain the injury is related rib neuritis. Sometimes pain around the shoulder, hand in hand.

Having difficulty breathing phenomenon only when pinched or tumor blocking the bronchial air, causing falling lung cancer has metastasized or pleural pleural causing hydrocephalus. Furthermore, patients also have trouble speaking or speaking voice hoarse due to tumor pinched nerves, difficulty swallowing due to esophageal pinched, thin shot, slight fever ...

The engineered lungs normal X-ray, computerized tomography or MRI can reveal tumors in any location of your lungs, how much size. To properly diagnose and classify cancer, contributing to treatment decisions, you should test histopathology and cytology.

For early detection of lung cancer, men from 40 years of age if accompanied smokers cough or sputum should extend to the hospital on January 4 for showing lungs, from sputum, bronchial testing services international cell study (5-8% of people visit the early detection of lung cancer). In both sexes from 40 years of age, if any signs of weight loss, coughing or coughing up blood, chest pain, difficulty breathing, difficulty speaking or swallowing you should have an exam and do tests.

Regarding treatment, depending on each patient, the doctor indicated surgery (cut-lobed lungs, lung lobes, and even the entire lung tumors, lymph nodes taken out if any) or radiotherapy ( alone or combination) and the drug.

How to prevent lung cancer is to create clean and beautiful environment, fresh air, no smoking, from the treatment of bronchial diseases, lung such as chronic bronchitis, pulmonary tuberculosis. At age 40 or older, should seek medical care, X-ray every 6 months or 1 year.

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