Lung cancer often causes no symptoms until it reaches the stage is already very serious, because it is usually lung cancer was incidentally found during screening tests for patients run the other tests.
A new method of X-ray called a spiral CT scan is quite promising in finding early lung cancer in smokers and former smokers. People who smoke should be remembered that the best way to avoid dying from lung cancer is smoking STOP.
If your doctor suspects lung cancer, the doctor will usually perform a physical examination and taking samples of sputum (saliva) for examination under a microscope; some types of lung cancer can be detected through sputum.
When not found cancerous cells in sputum analysis, your doctor may recommend additional examination such as:
• X-ray or CT scan of the thorax (chest).
• Bronchoscopy, namely binoculars lungs.
• needle biopsy, which is taking samples of lung tumor tissue for examination by the pathologist tumor types
• Bone scan, namely the examination of bone when doctors suspect that the spread of cancer to bone
• Mediastinoskopi, namely tissue sampling of lymph nodes to detect lung cancer spread to lymph nodes
• Blood tests for tumor markers associated with lung cancer, such as PTH (to distinguish lung cancer with pleural cancer for example), CEA (when levels above 50, indicating an advanced stage lung cancer), CYFRA21-1 protein marker for lung cancer).
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