Should patients with advanced lung cancer wear masks?

Do patients with advanced lung cancer need to wear masks?

1. Whether to wear a mask when caring for patients with advanced lung cancer should be considered based on actual conditions. If a family member has a respiratory infectious disease, they should wear a mask. If a family member does not have a respiratory infectious disease, they cannot wear a mask.

2. Advanced lung cancer refers to a pathological state in which lung cancer has spread to other parts of the body. Advanced lung cancer has a low clinical cure rate and a high mortality rate. Due to the frail physical condition of patients with advanced lung cancer, they need careful care from their families and comprehensive diet and life care. Lung cancer itself is not contagious, and cancer cells will not be spread through close contact, shared diet or droplets. Family members do not need to wear masks and do not have respiratory infectious diseases.

3. However, if family members already have respiratory infectious diseases such as common cold, influenza, new coronavirus infection, etc., they should wear masks when in contact with patients with advanced lung cancer. Because advanced lung cancer is very weak, if respiratory diseases are infected, it may aggravate the development of the disease and may lead to the deterioration of the disease.

4. It should be emphasized that advanced lung cancer does not mean death. Through scientific treatment and good life care, even if clinical cure cannot be achieved, patients with advanced lung cancer can effectively prolong their survival and improve their quality of life. The diagnosis of advanced lung cancer should be made in cooperation with doctors. At the same time, patients with advanced lung cancer also need good life care, such as maintaining a good and optimistic attitude, and a reasonable diet and nutrition, which is conducive to the recovery of the disease.