Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Post-operative care of lung cancer

Lung cancer after surgery, patients should be prohibited from smoking in order not to promote relapse. Have lung function decline, it is necessary to guide patients to gradually increase the amount of exercise.

Postoperative patients should always pay attention to the restoration of the situation, if relapse should immediately go to the hospital, please physician consultations, decide whether or not to line radiation therapy or chemotherapy.

Lung squamous cell carcinoma after the operation easy to violations caused by local recurrence of the chest cavity.

Differentiation of lung cancer or cancer metastasis easily, such as transfer to lymph nodes, bone, liver, brain and contralateral lung.

Whether patients should always pay attention to fever, cough drama, blood sputum, dyspnea, chest pain, headache, vision changes, liver pain, bone pain, supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly, etc., the view of the above symptoms, it is timely to go to the hospital for treatment . At the same time, patients should periodically go to the hospital for chest fluoroscopy, and stay fresh search of cancer cells in sputum.

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