How does lung cancer patient drowsiness return a responsibility

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My husband usually has the habit of smoking and drinking. After a long time, he has lung cancer. Every time he coughs, he is very painful. Now he is undergoing treatment. I am very worried about this. Now he often sleeps. Let's talk about the sleepiness of lung cancer patients.

How does lung cancer patient drowsiness return a responsibility

First: cancer is actually a consumptive disease, so patients will feel very tired during the onset of the disease, and it will be harder to move, so they are basically in a state of fatigue.

Second: bone metastases or hormones secreted by tumors often lead to hypercalcemia, a typical tumor emergency characterized by fatigue, nausea, thirst, frequent urination and sensory center turbidity. The liver function defect caused by metastasis may be fatigue. Infection and tumor burden, accompanied by cachexia and increased cytokine, can lead to systemic fatigue.

Third: if chemotherapy can alleviate cancer-related symptoms such as dyspnea, pain or fever, patients will be encouraged. Chemotherapy drugs usually cause sedation and nausea, and fatigue for one to two days. Combined therapy, fatigue appears in the lowest bone marrow function, that is, 14 days after chemotherapy. As the body recovers, so does the energy. Additional adjuvant treatment tends to increase fatigue. For women receiving chemotherapy, sleep and exercise are the most effective strategies to minimize fatigue

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In the later stage of treatment, the tendency of sleep increased. It is not clear whether the weekend time without radiotherapy is really less tired. It may be the cumulative effect of radiotherapy in the whole week, which makes the effect of one or two days' rest not obvious. The report shows that patients with systemic symptoms and poor function are more tired. Nausea, dyspnea, depression or anxiety will aggravate the symptoms caused by radiotherapy.