Lung disease in several nursing

Is the most common primary lung cancer, elderly people aged above 60 is a high incidence of lung cancer age-old suffering from cancer, its high degree of differentiation, proliferation slow surgical resection survival rate higher , in the pathological type of lung cancer in older men susceptible to phosphorus cancer, older women susceptible to cancer.

[Clinical manifestations]
The symptoms of lung cancer and tumor site, size, type, stage of development, and whether or not complications or metastasis.
1. The original cause the symptoms of cancer
Cough, hemoptysis, mostly blood or sputum continued intermittent blood. Bronchial obstruction caused by tumor stenosis, may have chest tightness, shortness of breath, wheezing and other symptoms, the occurrence of obstructive pneumonia or atelectasis, or tumor necrosis can be caused by fever. Wasting and evil heterogeneity is common in advanced cancer.
2. Tumor symptoms caused by local expansion
Chest pain, dysphagia, hoarseness, superior vena cava stop symptoms. Cancer metastasis, showed symptoms of the corresponding organ.
3. Other than the performance of the lungs
To bone, joint diseases and endocrine disorders caused by the syndrome more common, we can see clubbed fingers, hypertrophic osteoarthritis and Cushing's syndrome.

[Examination]
Chest X-ray examination found that lung cancer is an important method, sputum examination of cancer cells, lung cancer is to check the most simple and effective method of early diagnosis, and provide tissue cell types. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy and biopsy in the diagnosis of decisive significance.

[Treatment]
In a variety of therapeutic programs to the best surgical treatment. According to anatomical cancer, type, whether the transfer and integrated state of the body to choose surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, interventional therapy, herbal therapy and other measures.

[Nursing]
1. To understand the elderly diet, sleep and psychological state, a really good job in psychological care to the sick elderly people are in good state of mind and body, and in order to improve the therapeutic effect.
2. To prevent and control infection.
3. To observe the condition changes, the volume of hemoptysis more elderly people should be ready to save items to prevent suffocation.
4. For elderly people with advanced lung cancer may be an appropriate use of analgesics, to raise the elderly's quality of life.

[Preventive care]
1. Lung cancer patients with typical symptoms of the event, a significant proportion of lung cancer is already advanced. Therefore, high-risk groups regularly carry out X-ray inspection and screening, early detection of lung cancer, early treatment is important.
2. To promote smoking cessation, avoid and reduce inhalation of carcinogenic factors in air and dust, to improve the working and living conditions.
3. To carry out prevention and treatment of lung cancer health education, to improve older people's vigilance against lung cancer, so early detection and treatment.