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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Indication of lung cancer

Symptoms most frequently encountered in patients with lung cancer are:
  1.  Bloody sputum, change colors and more.
  2.  Persistent cough or become great.
  3.  Shortness of breath and shallow.
  4.  Headache, sore or cracked bone with no apparent cause.
  5.  Losing selara eating or weight loss for no apparent reason.
  6.  Hoarseness / husky.
  7.  Swelling in the face or neck.
  8.  Chronic Fatigue

Symptoms of lung cancer is generally not very visible, so that most lung cancer patients who seek medical help have been in an advanced stage. The case of early-stage cases are often found accidentally when someone does a routine health examination.
Diagnosis and treatment

Some procedures that may facilitate the diagnosis of lung cancer include X-ray photograph, Thoracic CT Scan, Fine Needle Biopsy, Bronchoscopy, and abdominal ultrasound.

Treatment of lung cancer can be done in ways such as
 
1. Surgery to remove one from any part of the lung - sometimes more  than the discovery of the tumor and remove all the lymph nodes with  cancer.
  • Radiotherapy or radiation with high intensity X-rays to kill cancer cells.
  • Chemotherapy.
  • Taking oral medication with certain side effects that aim to prolong     patient survival.

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