Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The Treatment of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer

Lung cancer might be treated by various therapies including surgery, but chemotherapy and radiation treatments are utilized widely to treat the disease whether surgery occur or not.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy engages drug medication which is intended to kill fast growing cells in the body - cancer cells are fast growing and it is this unrestrained development which leads to tumors to grow. Unluckily, the medications which are administered are not capable to make different between cancer cells and other fast growing cells, like the red blood cells and hair. Accordingly, there are side effects involved in receipt of chemotherapy which comprises hair loss and other incapacitating symptoms.

A lot of patients do not like the initiative of getting chemotherapy since they have heard of the side effects typically related with getting the treatment. Management of the side effects has come a long way and in a lot of instances, patients do not experience them to as great an extent as they initially predictable.

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Monday, March 1, 2010

The Detailed Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

A lot of patients find that they get lung cancer either since they present symptoms like persistent coughing and wheezing, at times coughing up blood or pain the chest and stomach. This typically induces further examination of the chest, usually calling for an x-ray (which might also take place as part of a routine health check) and the testing of sputum samples.

At this point more examinations will be called for reliant upon the results.

Detailed Diagnosis

The intention of a chest radiograph or x-ray is to identify enlarged lymph nodes in the chest or the existence of a mass in the lungs. More advanced methods could be employed to give much more detailed information and include the following:
CAT Scan or CT Scan - a CT Scan is a computer assisted examination which gives a cross-sectional image of the body under examination;

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