Comprehensive Care & Treatment For Lung Cancer in Salem.
What is Lung Cancer?
Lungs are two spongy organs in your chest that take in oxygen when you inhale and release carbon dioxide when you exhale. When the cancer develops in lung it is called lung cancer. This type of cancer mainly occurs in people who have sustained smoking habit.
Symptoms
- Coughing up blood, even a small amount
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain
- Hoarseness
- Bone pain
- Headache
- Weight loss
Risk
- Shortness of breath
- Coughing up blood
- Fluid in the chest (pleural effusion)
- Pain
Types of Lung Cancer
Small cell lung cancer
It is also known as “oat-cell cancer” which starts in the bronchi and quickly grows and spreads through the body. It is mainly caused due to tobacco smoking.
Non small cell lung cancer
It is most common type of cancer and develops at slower rate.
Adenocarcinomas - They mostly occur in the peripheral area of the lungs and is most common in women.
Squamous cell carcinomas - They arise most frequently in the central chest area in the bronchi, spread to lymph nodes and form a cavity.
Stages
Small cell lung cancer
- Limited stage: At this stage, cancer has only developed on one side of the chest and involves a single area of the lung, the lymph nodes, or both.
- Extensive stage: Cancer has spread to the opposite side of the chest or outside the chest
Non small cell lung cancer
Stage I
The cancer is found in the lung, but not spread outside the lung.
Stage II
The Cancer is found in the lung and nearby lymph nodes.
Stage III
Cancer found in the lung and lymph nodes in the middle of the chest.
Stage 3A
Cancer is spread in lymph nodes, but only on the same side of the chest where cancer first started growing
Stage 3B
Cancer has spread to lymph nodes on the opposite side of the chest
Stage IV
Cancer has spread to both lungs.
Diagnosis
- Biopsy
- Imaging tests
- Sputum cytology
Treatment
- Surgery
- Wedge resection - It is done to remove a small section of lung
- Segmental resection - It is Done to remove a larger portion of lung, but not the lobe
- Lobectomy - Removes The Entire Lobe Of One Lung
- Pneumonectomy - Remove An Entire Lung
- Radiation therapy
- Chemotherapy
- Targeted drug therapy-They block the abnormalities which causes the cancer cell to die
- Immunotherapy- Given to advanced lung cancer patients