Lung cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors, which has jumped to the first place among malignant tumors in recent years in China, and the incidence rate has a tendency to increase significantly.
1.What are the causes of lung cancer?
They include smoking, environmental pollution, occupation, genetics, viral infection, tuberculosis, psychological state and other factors. Among them, environmental pollution and smoking, including active and passive smoking, are important reasons for the increasing incidence and mortality of lung cancer worldwide.
2.What are the symptoms of lung cancer?
They include cough, blood in sputum, chest tightness and shortness of breath, chest pain, hoarseness, edema of the head and neck and upper limbs, as well as advanced symptoms such as low fever and malignant fluid.
3.What are the preventive measures for lung cancer?
① Quit smoking.
②Control of air pollution and good environmental protection.
③Occupational protection.
④ Prevention and control of bronchitis and chronic bronchitis.
⑤ Early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment.
4.What are the diagnostic methods for lung cancer?
①Imaging examinations such as X-ray, CT, MRI.
②Nuclear medicine examination such as ECT bone scan, PET and PET/CT.
③Pathological examination such as sputum exfoliative cell examination, fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy, percutaneous lung puncture biopsy, surgical pathological diagnosis as well as pleural fluid cytology and lymph node biopsy.
④Tumor marker tests including NSE, CEA, SCC, etc.
5.What are the treatment methods for lung cancer?
Lung cancer treatment is a comprehensive treatment mainly based on surgery, and surgery is still the first choice. For patients who are not suitable for surgery or preoperative and postoperative patients, they often need adjuvant radiotherapy, chemotherapy, biological therapy, Chinese herbal medicine and interventional therapy.
Surgery plus postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy can prolong the survival of more lung cancer patients and ensure the quality of life. Even patients with advanced lung cancer can obtain a long survival through chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and physical therapy.
Patients who failed adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery can get good survival with targeted drugs.
With the development of science and technology, we will have more and more cancer patients who can survive and our quality of life will be better and better. Therefore, the concept that cancer is equal to death, and that a death sentence is pronounced when one hears that one has cancer, is an old and outdated concept, not the current one.
Healthy people should stay away from tobacco and pay attention to health checkups, and cancer patients should join the cancer prevention and treatment publicity team while overcoming the disease themselves. Because your voices are sometimes stronger than our doctors’ voices, I hope we will join hands to fight cancer together so that we can get a better tomorrow.