Lung cancer patients should understand its diagnosis methods in advance

Many people nowadays may suffer from lung cancer due to excessive smoking, which will cause certain harm to their lives and health. If patients do not diagnose lung cancer in time, they may not be able to detect the disease in time, which is very dangerous. Therefore, everyone should understand the diagnosis methods of lung cancer so that they can cooperate with treatment as soon as possible. The following is an introduction to the diagnosis of lung cancer.

Lung cancer is diagnosed by:

1. Bronchoscopy

Bronchoscopy is an important diagnostic method for lung cancer. Through bronchoscope, the pathological changes of the bronchial lining and lumen can be directly observed. If cancer or cancerous infiltration is observed, tissue can be taken for pathological section examination, or bronchial secretions can be aspirated for cytological examination to confirm the diagnosis and determine the histological type.

2. Radionuclide examination

Radioactive drugs such as 67Ga-citrate have affinity for lung cancer and its metastatic lesions. After intravenous injection, they can be concentrated in the tumor and can be used for the diagnosis of lung cancer to show the extent of the cancer. The positive rate can reach about 90%.

3. X-ray examination

X-ray examination is the most commonly used method for diagnosing lung cancer. X-ray examination can be used to understand the location and size of lung cancer. Although X-ray examination of early lung cancer cases cannot yet show a mass, it may show local emphysema and atelectasis caused by bronchial obstruction, or infiltrative lesions or pulmonary inflammation in the vicinity of the lesion.

The above is the diagnosis of lung cancer. I hope everyone can understand it one by one. As long as you know the above diagnosis methods of lung cancer, you can let patients cooperate with treatment as soon as possible, and then you can effectively alleviate the condition. So if you want patients to control their condition as soon as possible, please refer to the diagnosis methods of lung cancer. Finally, I wish all patients can fight the disease to the end.