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Tobacco smoke can narrow and inflame your airways and make it harder to breathe. It often irritates your lungs and can cause a nagging cough. Over time, the smoke destroys lung tissue and might causecancer. It’s the No. 1 cause of lung cancer andCOPD, a disease that slowly destroys the...
Her doctor suggested surgery since this was regarded as an early stage lung cancer, Stage 1B. Surgery was done on 29 September 2008 but it was aborted – an open and close case. The cancer had spread to the back of the chest wall and was now considered a Stage 4 lung cancer. The do...
Lung cancer has multiple causes and develops differently depending on the underlying cause. Like other types of cancer,lung canceris a disease in which cells grow out of control and spread to other areas of the body. There are two types of lung cancer — small cell lung cancer and non-smal...
Lung cancer symptoms include cough (chronic, recurrent), fatigue, weight loss, shortness of breath or wheezing, coughing up phlegm that contains blood, and chest pain. Up to one-fourth of all people with lung cancer may have no symptoms when the cancer is diagnosed. These cancers usually are...
Lung Cancer: Free “Tarceva-for-life” failed FY is a 50-year-old Malaysian. His problem started with headache, poor appetite and weight loss. He consulted a doctor in a private Hospital A in his hometown. He was told there could be something in the brain. A CT scan was done and the...
of screenings: low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) and sputum cytology. LDCT scans involve the patient undergoing a chest X-ray, followed by a CT scan. A cytologist examines a sample of sputum (phlegm). The results of both tests are combined to determine whether the patient haslung cancer...
than those of the reference group while the incidence of adverse reactions was lower than that of the reference group,P<0.05.Conclusion:Lung-fire-clearnig,phlegm-resolving,and bowels-relaxing decoction can effectively improve the symptoms of patients with lung cancer and improve their quality of ...
If the screening tests suggest a person has lung cancer, definitive diagnostic tests may be done by a pathologist. The pathologist will examine the patient's lung cells in sputum, phlegm, or from a biopsy sample to type and stage the lung cancer. ...
Objective To observe the clinical observation of eliminating phlegm and removing phlegm in the treatment of middle and late lung cancer cough and asthma( phlegm and stasis syndrome). Methods in May 2016-2017 years 5 months of advanced lung cancer( cough and phlegm and blood stasis syndrome) in...