Backache turned out to be lung cancer!
Massage that tendon inflammation, found to have three stages of lung cancer, physicians assess the remaining six months life ...
Patients with lung cancer grow in the left upper lobe, 10 square centimeters of huge tumors destroy the ribs, and the back of the back grow. therefore...
Patients with lung cancer grow in the left upper lobe, 10 square centimeters of huge tumors destroy the ribs, and the back of the back grow. Therefore, patients with left back pain, physicians can touch a large hand such as fist big soft tissue. Dr. Zhong and physicians / provide
Many people have back problems, but back pain can not be ignored. A 44-year-old man of prime age, half a year that pain and sore left upper back, went to the martial arts museum massage, massage teacher said that the tendon inflammation, massage repeatedly relieved. Later medical examination, it was found to be non-small cell lung cancer, and is already stage III lung cancer, physicians assessed only half a year of life.
Guo Zhonghe, an orthopedic surgeon at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing, who referred to the patient, said that when the patient was on a orthopedic visit with his friend, he asked the doctor's own backache problem and the doctor considered the patient's abnormality after palpation and referred for further examination Only to find that lung cancer.
Guo Zhonghe pointed out that the patient's left upper back feels soft and swollen but does not move. Obviously there is a mass of about 10x10 cm, about the size of a fist. He is not intuitive at this moment. Check The result is really three stage lung cancer.
Guo Zhonghe said that the general lung cancer often grows in the chest, but the patient's tumor grows outside the lungs and the cancer cells have "fed" into the ribs, so there will be swelling of the back of the back to determine the course of at least one year.
Backache, weight loss, loss of appetite, but no cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, chest pain and other symptoms of lung cancer ...
In addition to patients with back pain in the past six months also appeared weight loss, loss of appetite and other phenomena, but there is no general lung cancer respiratory symptoms such as cough, hemoptysis, chest tightness, chest pain, etc., so that he neglects the condition. Although later referral to thoracic and radiological department for electrotherapy and chemotherapy, but the prognosis is poor.
Tai Hsi Hospital thoracic physician Wu Xianlin said the older the higher the risk of lung cancer, but now young people smoking age decreased, generally from the beginning of smoking to a cancer cells appear about 10 years, from the emergence of cancer cells to the X-ray It takes 10 years to see and see. Since there is almost no sign of initial lung cancer, it is often too late to find it and there is a high risk of death within a year.
From smoking to lung cancer incidence of about 20 years, the initial almost no symptoms, to find often too late ...
Wu Xianlin said lung cancer prevention, high mortality, it is recommended that people over the age of 40 according to X-ray film or tomography, annual comparison can be found. If accompanied by weight loss, can not eat, but also to medical examination and treatment as soon as possible.
National lung cancer authority, National Taiwan University Principal Yang Pan Chi said that suffering from lung cancer and genes, family history and other related, if the immediate family members suffering from lung cancer, the risk of lung cancer will be 3 to 5 times higher. He said that while smoking is related to lung cancer, women with lung cancer are less associated with smoking and lung cancer without smoking.
He pointed out that from smoking to lung cancer incidence of about 20 years, which is recognized by the medical community about the average, but each person's resistance is different, some people early onset, some people later.