In life, there are too many people who don’t care, always think that cough is a minor problem, and “drag” lung cancer out.
If there are 4 abnormalities, you should be alert to lung cancer, and you must go to the hospital in time, especially for high-risk groups.
1. Long-term cough, dry cough or even coughing up blood
The first symptom of most lung cancer patients is cough. This is different from the common cold. The cough caused by lung cancer is an irritating cough, often with no sputum or only a small amount of white sticky sputum, and some patients will also have hemoptysis.
Cough that lasts longer, more than 3 weeks, needs to be vigilant and may be lung cancer.
2. Hoarseness, chest tightness and shortness of breath
A hoarse voice and a tight throat are one of the symptoms of lung cancer. If you wake up in the morning with chest tightness, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, dizziness, feeling as uncomfortable and weak as lack of oxygen, even if you can recover for a while, you should be vigilant. This is one of the most common symptoms of lung cancer.
3. Shoulder, back, chest, arm pain
According to statistics, about 50% of lung cancer patients have symptoms of chest pain or shoulder pain, especially when coughing and shortness of breath.
4. Fingers are clubbed
The bones and joints of patients with primary lung cancer will show joint swelling and pain, of which clubbing (toes) is the most common, and 10% of lung cancer patients will have clubbing.
Don’t simply think that clubbing and joint swelling and pain are rheumatism attacks, just stick some plaster, it will delay the disease.
The “Schamroth test” is often used to help identify clubbing. The specific practice of this method is as follows:
1. Paste the nail surface and the back of the distal knuckle of the same finger (usually the middle finger) of both hands together;
2. Observation: Under normal circumstances, a diamond-shaped window is formed at the base of the two fingernails, while the gap of the tussah finger is smaller than that of the normal finger, and there is even no gap. Not only fingers, but also toes may appear, so keep an eye on them.
If you have these abnormalities, you must be vigilant and go to the hospital for further examination, especially the following 4 high-risk groups of lung cancer.
These four groups of people, hurry up to be screened
Although the low dose of low-dose spiral CT examination, its radiation level is still 10-20 times that of an ordinary chest X-ray, and the radiation dose is still relatively large.
For example, 99% of young people in their 20s and 30s will not get lung cancer. If you ask him to do a low-dose spiral CT every year, that is a kind of injury, and high-risk groups have the opportunity to take it once a year. Some newly developed lung cancers.
1. Severe smokers, smoking one pack a day for 20 consecutive years, or two packs a day for 10 years, heavy smoking, older age, and a much higher risk of lung cancer than others;
2. People with special occupations, such as those who have worked in asbestos mines and these polluted mines, are also at high risk of lung cancer due to the carcinogenic effect of environmental factors on people;
3. People who have suffered from lung diseases, such as tuberculosis, asthma, chronic bronchitis and other lung diseases in the past, have a poor lung environment and are prone to lung cancer;
4. Some people in the family and immediate family members have had cancer or lung cancer. This is called familial aggregation.
Therefore, as long as the age is older than 40 years, high-risk groups with these four conditions are recommended to do a low-dose spiral CT examination once a year, then lung cancer can be detected at an early stage.
(Health Times)