Q: I smoke in recent 20 years, and have a bad cough, chest pain, shortness of breath sometimes. I find the material that is lung cancer, is this what to do?
Mr. Li: long-term smokers if the symptoms, the timely medical treatment, testing of lung cancer. An unidentified irritating cough is over, for two weeks. Second is the blood phlegmy. Three is same parts of idiopathic pulmonary repeatedly. "" inflammation, These can all be signs of lung cancer.
If you appeared above circumstance, the proposal to have qualification in the specialized subject hospital treatment, the vast majority of lung cancer is detected early will be. In many means of inspection, the chest radiograph including regular x-rays and chest radiograph can gain perspective, a clear image, easy to observe carefully, analysis, X-rays can dynamically and observation. Cancer had better take up phlegm early morning the first phlegmy, because some lung cancer detection is the sputum, therefore, must be more than 50% even find many (3 above) to help.
In addition, still can further do chest CT or MRI, by contrast CT better, but to accept a certain amount of X-ray irradiation (measurement is allowed). Then can also do fiberoptic bronchoscopy, guided by CT examination, vats targeted biopsy inspection, serum lung cancer markers inspection, PET - CT etc.