The causes of shortness of breath in lung cancer may be caused by the combination of pneumonia, pleural effusion and malignant disease, etc. The treatment often adopted includes symptomatic treatment and causative treatment, and the specific measures are as follows:
1. Continuous low-flow oxygen inhalation: no matter which cause of chest tightness and shortness of breath, oxygen inhalation is the first choice of measure to improve the symptoms, and then find out the causes of the disease and carry out treatment for different causes.
2. Anti-infection treatment: if lung cancer patients are accompanied by symptoms of lung infection, blood culture and sputum culture should be carried out in time, and effective antibiotics should be used for treatment; glucocorticoid or bronchodilator can be used for a short period of time to alleviate the symptoms of shortness of breath in the case of serious infection.
3. Puncture and drainage: if lung cancer patients are combined with a large amount of pleural effusion that causes respiratory difficulties, chest tube drainage is needed to relieve the symptoms of lung compression.
4. Surgery: Doctors will stage the lung cancer according to the patient’s specific condition and judge whether the patient can be treated by surgery, or the tumor can be shrunk by local precise radiotherapy to relieve the symptoms of obstruction.
It is suggested that patients should seek medical treatment in time and under the guidance of doctors so as to relieve the symptoms.