Lung cancer is diagnosed in an estimated 174,000 Americans each year. Here you'll find in-depth lung cancer information including its symptoms, stages, and treatments.
作者: Cancer Research UK 摘要: If you have symptoms that could be due to lung cancer you may have various tests. The tests include a chest X-ray, tests to look inside the airways, (bronchoscopy or endobronchial ultrasound), a CT scan, or surgery to take a sample (biopsy) of the tum...
Small-Cell Lung Cancer Symptoms People with small-cell lung cancer typically have symptoms for about 2 to 3 months before they visit their doctor. The symptoms can result from local growth of the tumor (meaning growth in the lung where it started), spread to nearby areas, distant spread, pa...
Learn More About Cancer Signs and SymptomsWho Should Be Screened for Cancer? Some cancers can begin to grow without any signs or symptoms apparent to you or your doctor. To find those cancers early, researchers have developed a variety of screening tools that can indicate the presence of cancer...
This chapter describes the components of the initial evaluation for a patient either suspected or known to have lung cancer. The components of the initial evaluation are based on the recognized manifestations of localized lung cancer, ie, symptoms referable to the primary tumor...
My soon to be husband had symptoms for weeks, and the tests kept coming back negative...but his pain reached such a level that I had to take him to the Emergency Room at our local hospital. The ER doctor felt something was being over looked...for he had had a CT scan of his ches...
Using the 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) imaging technique,with a PET/CT scanner, researchers from The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam evaluated 114 patients experiencing pulmonary symptoms and/or abnormal chest x-rays. Researchers were able to make a final diagnosis for 92 percent of the pat...
In most diffuse lung diseases, respiratory symptoms generally develop insidiously because of alterations of the elastic and/or the flow-resistive properties of the lungs. These symptoms occur concurrently with disturbances of gas exchange. Most of the time, the physiologic alterations occur concomitantly...
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