Causes of neck and face edema in patients with lung cancer

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Lung cancer is a very common disease, which has a great impact on us. Generally speaking, cough, chest tightness and other symptoms will appear in the early stage, which has a great impact on us. If we want to understand lung cancer, we should start with its symptoms. Today we will take a look at the causes of neck and face edema of lung cancer.

Causes of neck and face edema in patients with lung cancer

First, lung cancer patients with facial and head and neck edema, may be due to tumor metastasis caused by superior vena cava syndrome.

Second, traditional Chinese medicine has a strong holistic concept. Traditional Chinese medicine can often consider the characteristics of the patient's whole body, not just limited to the cancer focus itself. Chinese medicine conditioning can correct the body's dysfunction, remove tumor recurrence factors, reduce the chance of metastasis; secondly, traditional Chinese medicine has less damage to healthy cells, and generally will not cause new damage to physical strength due to the treatment itself. When the cancer gets better, physical strength will gradually recover, and gradually enhance immunity.

Third: the right side of the mediastinal cavity, which comes from venous blood back to the heart of the upper limbs and head and neck. If the tumor invasion and mediastinal compression on the superior right superior vena cava, the first time due to the poor carotid artery return and anger, and finally edema of the face, leading to neck, need timely diagnosis and treatment, this is also the symptom of lung cancer.

matters needing attention

Most patients with lung cancer will appear edema in the late stage. Gamma knife can be recommended for the treatment of lung cancer in the late stage. Gamma knife is a kind of radiotherapy, which belongs to stereotactic radiotherapy. It belongs to focused radiation, with accurate positioning and little impact on the surrounding normal tissue.