Secondary cancer in Lung

Secondary Cancer in Lung

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Secondary cancer

• The secondary cancer cells will spread to the lung that started somewhere else in the body.

• The cancer cells will break from where the cancer started and travels through the blood or lymphatic node (http://www.slideshare.net/danielvhenny/how-lung-cancer-spreads-to-lymph-nodes-61896556)and travels to other parts of the body especially in lung.

• The next the lung will affected by cancer cells and contains various problems.

• The secondary cancer is made of the same type of cells as the primary cancer.

• Finding out that your cancer has spread is likely to bring up many different feelings.

• You may be frightened, angry, shocked or numb or all of these.

• Most people have already had treatment for a primary cancer and it can feel very unfair to have to cope with cancer a second time. Some people have a secondary

Symptoms of Secondary Cancer

• Cough

• Breathlessness

• Pain or discomfort

• Chest infections

• Weight loss

• A pleural effusion

Test to be taken for secondary cancer

Test to diagnose secondary cancer includes

• Chest x-ray,

• CT or PET scan or

• Biopsy.

• MRI scan

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Treatment

The treatment helps to control the tumour and any

symptoms. Some of the treatment (http://lungcancersymptomsx.com/second-line-treatment-for-lung-cancer.html/ ) helps to recover from lung cancer they are,

• Radiotherapy• Chemotherapy• Surgery• Steroids• Hormone therapy

• The treatments may usually helps to control the cancer sometimes it may cure the cancer completely.

• Sometimes surgery can be done to remove the secondary cancer.

• Radiotherapy can help relieve symptoms of secondary lung cancer.

• Another treatment called ablation is sometimes used. This uses heat or cold to destroy cancer cells.

• The cancer can be identified at initial stage with the help of symptoms and can be treated easily.

• Some type of cancer may not be identified because there wont be symptoms at any cause.

• In such case the various types of test can helps to identify cancer at right time and can be treated.

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