What are the steps of lung cancer examination

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My husband's grandfather is an old smoker. He began to smoke when he was very young. Since the death of her husband's grandmother, no one has been able to persuade her husband's grandfather. So we decided to take the old man to the hospital for examination. Now let me talk about the examination method of lung cancer.

What are the steps of lung cancer examination

First: lung examination: the sputum of the patient's lung is extracted to check the cancer cells. Once the cancer cells are found in the sputum, the diagnosis can be established, so it has diagnostic value. Lung cancer examination is especially suitable for the early diagnosis of lung cancer growing in the central part of the lung. The quality of sputum and the time of submission will affect the detection rate of cancer cells. Therefore, it is best to spit out the first sputum in the morning, and check it within one hour, the result is the most accurate.

Second: fiberoptic bronchoscopy: lung cancer examination is especially suitable for sputum to find cancer cells positive, and chest CT negative, in addition, for the hilar lesions near the diagnosis rate is relatively high. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy combined with fine needle aspiration and X-ray guided lung biopsy can further improve the positive rate.

Third: low dose chest spiral CT examination: low dose spiral CT screening of lung cancer can significantly improve the detection rate of early lung cancer, lung cancer examination through surgical treatment, the majority of patients can be cured, long-term survival. Puncture or thoracoscopic examination: lung cancer examination for chest CT findings of lung abnormalities, in the suspected possibility of lung cancer, should be further percutaneous puncture or thoracoscopic examination.

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Now, the risk of lung cancer is significantly higher than before. Moreover, the treatment of lung cancer is more difficult than before. Lung cancer examination methods are many, such as mechanical examination, the most often used is radiation examination. Of course, there are some other ways to assist the examination.