Pay attention to early diagnosis of lung tumors

Lung cancer is the most common primary malignant tumor of the lung and a disease that seriously threatens people's health and life. At present, the incidence of lung cancer in my country is increasing year by year, and the mortality rate of lung cancer in some large cities has jumped to the top of the death rate of various malignant tumors. Therefore, we must attach importance to the early diagnosis of lung cancer, early detection and early treatment.

Lung tumors are generally asymptomatic and can only be discovered through early diagnosis of lung tumors. When symptoms appear, most patients are already in the middle and late stages of lung tumors. According to clinical experience, the main symptoms of lung tumors are cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, chest tightness and shortness of breath, fever, and extrapulmonary symptoms caused by tumor metastasis, such as bone and joint lesions and ectopic endocrine syndrome. Therefore, everyone should be more alert to these symptoms and go to the hospital for treatment in time if similar situations occur. Examinations can be performed through chest X-rays, sputum cytology, bronchoscopy, CT, magnetic resonance imaging, percutaneous lung puncture, lymph node biopsy, thoracentesis, tumor markers, and other methods.

The treatment effect of lung tumors depends on early diagnosis of lung tumors. Therefore, early diagnosis of lung tumors is very important. People over 40 years old and long-term heavy smokers should undergo relevant tumor screening if they have coughed for 2-3 weeks without obvious causes and have chest tightness and chest pain, or have persistent or repeated blood in sputum without any reason, or have unexplained pain in the limbs and clubbing of fingers (toes).

Through chest X-ray and chest CT and other imaging examinations, we can find small lesions in the lungs. If a peripheral mass is found, a percutaneous lung puncture biopsy can be performed. If it is a central mass or a mass growing in the bronchial cavity, a fiberoptic bronchoscopy can be performed. Both can directly reach the lesion site and obtain living tissue for pathological examination, which is the gold standard for diagnosing lung cancer. Other tests such as carcinoembryonic antigen, neuropeptide and neurogenic tests are of great help in the diagnosis of tumors.

In fact, early lung cancer can be treated surgically, with the lesion removed, combined with postoperative radiotherapy, chemotherapy, Chinese medicine and immunomodulatory treatment, effectively improving the patient's survival time and quality of life. Patients who cannot undergo surgery can undergo bronchial artery perfusion, where anti-tumor drugs are directly injected into the tumor site, which can shrink the tumor until it disappears completely, and can also relieve chest pain, severe coughing, control pleural effusion and other symptoms to the greatest extent, and even give them another chance for surgery to improve the efficacy.

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