What are the symptoms of advanced lung cancer? How to care for advanced lung cancer?

Lung cancer is one of the most rapidly growing malignant tumors in recent years, with a significantly increased incidence and mortality rate. Most patients are in the advanced stage of lung cancer. When lung cancer patients can live for a long time, it is mainly because of the symptom control and stabilization of the disease in the advanced stage of lung cancer, which will prolong the patient's survival time. Obviously, nursing care is also indispensable.

In our lives, people suffering from lung cancer are becoming more and more common. So what are the symptoms of lung cancer? How should we take care of this disease? I believe these are topics that everyone is very concerned about, because lung cancer is a very big blow to us, so today the experts will introduce you to your questions!

Clinical manifestations of lung cancer include:

1. Patients will have symptoms such as shortness of breath, dyspnea, and pleural effusion. Eventually, almost all regional spreads occur with varying degrees of shortness of breath. Since the return of normal tissue fluid produced by the lungs and myocardium is fluid from the thoracic lymph nodes. If these lymph nodes are blocked by tumors, this tissue fluid will accumulate in pericardial effusions or accumulate in pleural effusions.

2. Edema of the face, neck and cervix are common symptoms in the late stage of lung cancer. In the right mediastinal vein, it returns the venous blood from the upper limbs and head and neck to the heart. If the tumor invades and the right mediastinum compresses the superior vena cava, the neck vein will first be swollen due to poor blood flow, and finally it will cause edema of the face and neck, which requires timely diagnosis and treatment.

3. Hoarseness is one of the symptoms of advanced lung cancer. It controls the left laryngeal function of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which goes from the neck to the chest, bypasses the heart of the large blood vessels and returns to the throat, thereby controlling the left side of the vocal organ. Therefore, if the tumor invades the mediastinum and compresses the left recurrent laryngeal nerve, the voice will become hoarse, but there will be no upper respiratory tract infection symptoms such as sore throat.

The methods of care are:

1. Relieve symptoms: Fever and cough are common symptoms in patients with advanced lung cancer. If the patient has a fever, keep warm and effectively prevent influenza and pneumonia. If the cough is irritating, cough suppressants can be used for treatment. Patients with night coughs need to drink water to stop coughing. If a small amount of hemoptysis occurs, hemostatic drugs can be used.

2. Observation of the disease: Patients with advanced lung cancer often experience tumor metastasis and a variety of symptoms after tumor metastasis, such as blurred vision, convulsions and coma after liver and brain metastasis. Patients and their families need to be observed at any time during the disease and implement appropriate nursing measures for the condition.

Since lung cancer is like a devil in our lives, it will seriously affect our happy life, so we need to have a deep understanding of some relevant knowledge about lung cancer in order to better control the disease. So the above is a brief introduction by experts about some manifestations and care methods of lung cancer in life. I wish you a speedy recovery!