What's the difference between lung cancer and tuberculosis?

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Tuberculosis and lung cancer are both lung diseases. I want to know the difference between these two diseases? In fact, whether it is lung cancer or tuberculosis, they are a very serious disease threatening human life and health, but 50 years ago, tuberculosis became the main disease threatening human life and health, 50 years later. Lung cancer instead of tuberculosis has become the number one killer of human life and health. Although both are lung diseases, there are some differences.

What's the difference between lung cancer and tuberculosis?

But tuberculosis is a disease that only damages the lungs. Lung cancer is a disease that will spread and metastasize. It will not only damage the lung, but also transfer to other organs of the body, and then damage the function of other organs.

On the other hand, now that tuberculosis has been cured, only a few patients with lung cancer in the early stage are likely to be cured, and the vast majority of patients still can not be cured. The clinical symptoms of lung cancer and tuberculosis are similar. Both of them have cough, expectoration and emaciation

The first big difference between lung cancer and tuberculosis is that one is not infectious, and the other is infectious. We all know that tuberculosis is infectious, so if we want to treat tuberculosis, we often need to go to a specialized hospital for isolation treatment.

matters needing attention

Tuberculosis is no longer a terrible disease endangering human life and health, because now medical technology has solved the treatment problem of tuberculosis, but the treatment problem of lung cancer is still unresolved, so it is still endangering our human health.