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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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