How to diagnose advanced lung cancer

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Recently, Lao Zhang feels that his cough is aggravating, especially when he gets up in the morning. He even coughs and bleeds when he gets serious. I don't know if it's lung cancer. I want to go to the hospital to have a look. Let me introduce how to diagnose advanced lung cancer.

How to diagnose advanced lung cancer

First: X-ray examination. Including chest fluoroscopy, chest X-ray, chest CT scan and other methods. The location and size of lung tumor can be known by X-ray examination. Ordinary X-ray chest film can clearly show the density, boundary, pleural changes, central liquefaction and other characteristics of the tumor, so the chest X-ray plain film is usually taken first, and then the chest CT scan is made when further examination is carried out. In order to understand the location of the lesion, the relationship with the surrounding organs, small pleural nodules or a small amount of pleural effusion, segmental atelectasis, mediastinal lymph node enlargement, and pulmonary micrometastasis Chest CT scan is better than ordinary X-ray.

Second: qualitative examination, that is to say, what type of lung cancer is, the methods of examination are as follows: sputum examination, tracheoscopy, mediastinoscopy, puncture biopsy, pleural effusion drainage cytology, thoracotomy biopsy and exploration, etc., through obtaining tumor tissue or cells for pathological analysis to determine the diagnosis of lung cancer

Third: location and staging examination, that is to say, the specific location of lung cancer, whether there is metastasis, and where it has been transferred, mainly through CT scanning, nuclear magnetic resonance, PET-CT, and bone scan imaging, to determine the location of lung cancer, whether there is metastasis, and the location of metastatic foci.

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There are many methods for the diagnosis of advanced lung cancer, the most intuitive in addition to the obvious changes and discomfort felt by the patient's body, there are also many medical examination methods, some of the above diagnostic methods are generally more accurate, and the specific examination should be combined with personal conditions.