It is said that the world is so big that there are no wonders. Someone actually “grew” a tree in their lungs?

Russia’s Komsomolskaya Pravda published a news…

In 2009, a 28-year-old The young man came to the local cancer center for examination because of abnormal chest pain. After X-rays, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Later, the local doctor performed a surgical operation for him. When the boy’s lungs were opened, they found that there were many needle-like green leaves growing on his lungs. After a closer look, I found that this turned out to be a 5cm long spruce sapling.

Photo source Chongqing Evening News

According to the recollection of the attending physician, he At that time, I couldn’t believe my eyes, and kept blinking to make sure that I was not wrong. After that, it was the normal operation process, and the doctor took out the spruce saplings. The reason why the man had severe pain was because the leaves of the sapling punctured the capillaries.

The doctors were also surprised by this. They believed that the man inadvertently inhaled the spruce seeds one day, and the seeds took root in the lungs after entering the body.

As soon as the news came out, it was questioned by many netizens, mainly because it was too absurd. So far, I don’t know if the news is true or not. Can our lungs really grow plants?

1. Can trees really grow in the lungs?

Professor Wang Liangju, a doctoral supervisor at the School of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University said that the normal temperature of the human body is around 37℃, and the temperature of the lungs is also the same. The rise and fall is generally not more than 1 ℃. The optimum temperature for seed germination is 25~30℃, obviously the temperature of the human body is not suitable for The seeds germinate. What’s more, the fir, which belongs to the northern plant, will germinate at a lower temperature than ordinary plants.The possibility of germination in the human body is almost 0.

In addition, once the seeds enter the lungs, people will feel obvious discomfort, coughing, pain, etc. are very common, these symptoms will make people uncomfortable , it is impossible to endure for a long time, let alone wait until the seeds germinate and grow into trees.

Although trees cannot grow in the lungs, lung cancer is a real disease. At present, the probability of clinical misdiagnosis of lung cancer is still relatively high.

Second, no matter what, lung cancer is easily misdiagnosed

Johns Hopkins University Epidemiology found that there are three broad categories of diseases most commonly misdiagnosed: infections, cancers and major vascular events. Among cancers, the highest misdiagnosis rate is lung cancer, accounting for 22.5%.

Why is lung cancer so misdiagnosed?

1. Symptoms lack specificity

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The more common symptoms of lung cancer include cough, hoarseness, chest tightness and chest pain, blood in the sputum, etc., but these symptoms are not unique to lung cancer, some other respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia, colds , bronchitis, etc. can also cause these symptoms, so it is prone to misdiagnosis.

2. Imaging is similar to many diseases strong>

There is a big problem in the imaging examination of the lungs“same disease with different shadow” and “different disease with same shadow” , that is, the same disease may have different imaging results or different diseases may have the same imaging results, which directly makes the diagnosis of benign and malignant lung diseases particularly difficult.

And the man in this case relies onX-rays to diagnose lung cancer, which is also very unreliable , our lungs and heart, mediastinum, diaphragm, etc. overlap, it is difficult to distinguish the frontal chest X-ray, and even if a tumor is found, X-ray is difficult to distinguish the specific size and nature of the tumor.

Puncture biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosing lung cancer, which can determine the specific cytological type, degree of differentiation and Information such as the sensitivity of targeted drugs, other inspections are more of a “stepping stone”, and ultimately require a needle biopsy to reach a conclusion.

The occurrence of lung cancer is closely related to some details in our lives. If you want to prevent lung cancer, I advise you to stay away from these “dangers”.

Third, advice: do not want to be targeted by lung cancer, avoid these incentives

1. Tobacco

Tobacco contains a lot of harmful substances, and two-thirds of lung cancer deaths worldwide are caused by smoking. Long-term, heavy smokers have a higher risk of developing lung cancer than non-smokers Increase 10 to 20 times. Some people who are forced to smoke secondhand smoke also have an increased risk of cancer.

2. AirPollution

Car exhaust, industrial waste gas and urban waste will cause air pollution. After the human body inhales these harmful gases, it is easy to threaten the health of the lungs, and ultimately May cause lung cancer.

3, cooking oil smoke

my country’s unique cooking modes such as frying, stir-frying, and grilling can also hurt our lungs. When rapeseed oil, soybean oil, etc. are heated to 270 °C, the resulting oil mist condensate will cause cell chromosome damage, which is related to the occurrence of cancer.

4. Radon gas

Radon is a radioactive gas, Research published in Health Perspectives suggests that low levels of radon exposure increase the risk of lung cancer, especially in young adults. Radon is widely found in subways, tunnels, underground parking lots, and oil refineries.

5, stay up late, reverse day and night

MIT span>Researchers have found in mouse experiments that once the circadian rhythm in mice is disrupted, lung cancer in mice develops faster and is more aggressive.

The possibility of something absurd like a tree growing in the lungs is very unlikely to happen. There is no need to worry about this. What we should really pay attention to is some potential threats around us, stay away from them as much as possible, and reduce the risk of cancer in our body.

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