This is General Symptoms of Lung Cancer
Lung cancer primarily affects people who like to consume cigarettes. Smoking is still the leading cause of lung cancer dominates, both for active smokers or passive smokers. While other causes contamination of the surrounding air by the substance of asbestos, air pollution by fumes or combustion including tobacco smoke.
People often associate the disease with smoking both active and passive. However , physician Atul Gawande from Brigham and Women 's Hospital , Boston , USA , in his article in The New Yorker , August 2, 2010 said , more than 15 % of lungcancer patients overwrite non - smokers .
Lung cancer often does not show any symptoms are visible from the outside when cell growth has not been severe. As many as 25 % of patients with lung cancer known symptoms after their routine such as: chest X-ray or CT scan. If lung cancer is proven to exist then it will seem like a small circle coins.
If the cancer has invaded nerves, for example, can cause shoulder pain that moves on the outside of the arm (called Pancoast syndrome) or paralysis of the vocal cords causing hoarseness.
Invasion of the esophagus may lead to difficulty swallowing. If breathing is hampered, causing infections (abscesses, pneumonia) in the obstructed area.
Meanwhile, the symptoms associated with meta-static, lung cancer that has spread to the bones may produce excruciating pain in the bone.
While cancer that has spread to the brain may cause a number of neurological symptoms such as blurred vision , headaches , seizures , or symptoms of stroke such as weakness or loss of sensation in parts of the body .
Patients with lung cancer are usually treated with chemotherapy and combination of drugs that focus on controlling the gene mutation. However, in patients with advanced stages of cancer, there is no cure that really effective.
Used of drugs only prolong the patient's life expectancy. As with other cancers, therapy may be prescribed revocation or cancer or palliative (measures that are unable to treat cancer but can reduce pain and suffering of patients.
Early detection of cancer is very profitable. Therefore, the sooner cancer is found and treated, the greater the chance of recovery.
Conversely, if the detection of lung cancer is made after any complaints, it is possible that the cancer has progressed to an advanced stage. In this condition, in addition to more difficult treatment efforts also become much more expensive.
