Lung cancer may not have symptoms of cough!

Fanmou patients is a more than 60-year-old woman, six months ago began to feel left shoulder secret anguish, when light when heavy, After calcium and Chinese medicine treatment, and no effect. Periarthritis in the hospital after the diagnosis, treatment manager, acupuncture, massage therapy, his condition was improving, but shortly after heavier. Accompanied by family members of patients in January to hospital for treatment after making X-ray films. She has found the right shoulder humeral head and multiple lung metastases. After the CT scan, and finally found a walnut in her left apical size of primary lung cancer. What is surprising is, the widespread metastases from lung cancer patients have died not have a cough, hemoptysis and other respiratory symptoms. Lung cancer is a common cancer, the incidence rate of increase in recent years, in terms of the typical symptoms of cough, blood-tinged sputum, and difficulty in breathing, chest pain and so on. With medical knowledge and the widespread publicity over the years, most patients can cause these symptoms attention to themselves and their families, time to go to the hospital for treatment. However, a small number of patients with a special performance, such as no cough, hemoptysis and other respiratory symptoms, but there bone and joint pain. swelling of the neck, upper abdominal pain, anorexia, headache and other symptoms. They often repeated treatment in orthopedics and physiotherapy units, such as epidemiology. If the doctor's lack of vigilance, these sections could easily lead to misdiagnosis, wrong treatment to the patients brought irreparable consequences. Based on the author's many years of clinical experience suggested that the following points help to patients and doctors to detect non-typical lung cancer. ▲ patients with a history of smoking, and if there can not be explained in the bone and joint pain, headaches, even in the absence of respiratory symptoms. The possibility should also be thought of lung cancer. ▲ to the same position in terms of the pneumonia patients, we should guard against the possibility of lung cancer. On the chest X-ray and CT scan in the diagnosis of patients is not entirely clear, can help make the diagnosis of fiberoptic bronchoscopy. ▲ aged 40 or above, the best conditions for each of the first X-ray examination. ▲ very similar to the clinical manifestations of lung cancer and the patients had normal chest X-ray, CT scan and further. CT findings of lung cancer because more sensitive than chest. ▲ sputum cytology is simple and easy for the patient without harm, we should give full play to the role of the means of inspection. help diagnosis.