Early symptoms of lung cancer can easily lead to misdiagnosis

I believe everyone is already very familiar with lung cancer, but do you know what methods can be used to diagnose lung cancer? In fact, the symptoms of early lung cancer are easily misdiagnosed, so it is important to understand the diagnosis of lung cancer.

Lung cancer is easy to be misdiagnosed in the early stage. Its main symptoms include cough, blood in sputum, fever and chest pain, which can be easily mistaken for "lung inflammation" or "tuberculosis". Especially for patients with a history of bronchitis or bronchiectasis, coughing or hemoptysis, it is more likely to be ignored, thus delaying diagnosis and treatment.

Lung cancer is common in men around 45 years old who smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day. In this group, if you have symptoms such as irritating dry cough and blood in sputum, you should seek medical attention as soon as possible and follow the doctor's advice to check for lung cancer. There are many ways to diagnose lung cancer, such as chest X-ray sputum to find cancer cells, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, chest CT, percutaneous lung puncture, etc.

In addition, lung cancer can also be diagnosed by blood tests. Sometimes it is not clear at one time, and repeated examinations are required until the diagnosis is clear. Regular chest X-rays every 6 months, CT scans when necessary, and sputum examinations to find cancer cells are the main methods for discovering asymptomatic lung cancer and are worth promoting. In addition, for some people with extrapulmonary symptoms and signs, such as clubbing of fingers and toes, male breast hypertrophy, sudden skin diseases, etc., further examinations should be conducted to prevent early lung cancer from being missed.

The above is an introduction to the diagnosis of lung cancer, I hope it can help everyone. Experts suggest that some diseases have no early symptoms or are not obvious. For your health, the best way is to have regular physical examinations, detect the disease early, and prescribe the right medicine.

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