How to care for primary bronchogenic lung cancer Routine care for primary bronchogenic lung cancer

In fact, what we usually call lung cancer is bronchial lung cancer. Depending on the type of lung cancer, the care and treatment we provide are also different. But in general, if we want to take good care of patients with lung cancer, we should understand the nursing knowledge at different development stages before we can truly take good care of patients with lung cancer.

Primary bronchogenic carcinoma, or lung cancer for short, is a common primary malignant tumor of the lung that originates from the bronchial mucosa or glands and often has regional lymph node metastasis and hematogenous metastasis. Early symptoms include irritating cough, blood in sputum, shortness of breath or wheezing, and later symptoms of cancer compression and metastasis gradually appear, such as chest pain, hoarseness, dysphagia, pleural effusion and superior vena cava obstruction syndrome.

Clinical features: Abnormalities depend on the location, type, size, stage of development, complications or metastasis of the tumor. Peripheral lung cancer has no symptoms in the early stage; symptoms of central lung cancer appear early and are obvious. The most common symptoms are choking cough, no sputum or a small amount of white sticky sputum, and a high-pitched metallic sound when coughing. There may be symptoms such as cough, purulent sputum, and blood in sputum.

Nursing during radiotherapy: The skin at the radiotherapy site often develops skin erythema, epidermal exfoliation, and even edema, blister formation, and complications such as radiation esophagitis and pneumonia. Therefore, patients are advised not to wipe off the marks on the irradiated area on their own: underwear should be soft and highly hygroscopic, and no tape should be applied to the irradiated area to prevent the zinc oxide contained in it from producing secondary radiation and aggravating skin damage.

End-of-life care: Provide various symptom care and life care to relieve pain and maintain the dignity of the patient. Comfort the patient's family and reduce their sadness.

Although there is still a lot of knowledge that we need to understand and know about the care of patients with bronchial lung cancer, patients with bronchial lung cancer also need to pay attention to constantly learning about the relevant knowledge of the disease, because only after our patients understand the knowledge can they know how to cooperate with our treatment best and improve the clinical treatment effect.