"If I hadn't fallen, I really don't know what would happen. I'd be afraid of thinking about it." Chen Chen (pseudonym)'s mother is still scared.
An accidental falls and found out that her 11-year-old son was suffering from lung cancer. What she never thought was that at such a young age, her son was related to the so-called "adult cancer".
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Hangzhou First People's Hospital Cardiac Thoracic Surgery Deputy Chief Physician Feng Xing said that the younger age of cancer has long been not a new term, especially for some special groups, and we must pay attention to strengthening physical examinations.
Accorded to fall and find something strange in the lungs
11-year-old Chen Chen (pseudonym) usually goes to school in Fuyang, Hangzhou. He is also a sixth-grade elementary school student. The alarm bell had already sounded a year ago...
One day last year, Chen Chen accidentally fell and injured his chest. Because of the unbearable pain, his family immediately took him to the hospital for consultation. To be on the safe side, the doctor arranged for him an CT examination for . Fortunately, it was only a skin trauma, but unexpectedly found a ground-glass nodule about 5mm in his right lower lung, and asked to follow up on time. Because it doesn't hurt or itchy, the family didn't take it seriously and gradually forgot about it...
says that it's not that the whole family doesn't come in. Just two years ago, Grandma Chen was also diagnosed with lung nodules during a physical examination. During this year's routine physical examination, it was found that this nodule had developed into a suspicious shadow of 4cm. The doctor suggested that my grandmother do further examinations as soon as possible. Grandma was eventually diagnosed with lung cancer. The family can’t believe it. Isn’t this a common nodule? How can it change just by saying it? After
, my grandmother came to the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Hangzhou First People's Hospital and underwent minimally invasive surgery, and the operation was very successful. Chen Chen's mother felt a little guilty: It would be great if we paid attention to the early surgery for this lung nodule.
Grandma's experience left a lot of regrets for her family. Chen Chen's mother also recalled the nodules on her son's lungs and quickly consulted with Feng Xing, deputy chief physician of cardiothoracic surgery.
The inconspicuous lung nodule is actually cancer
After reading Chen Chen's CT report a year ago, Dr. Feng had an unknown premonition. Based on the doctor's intuition, he believed that Chen Chen's lung nodule had extremely high risk, so he quickly arranged for him to have a CT scan. I saw the right lower lung nodule close to the lung membrane, pleura seems to pull, and all signs point to the bad result - there is a high possibility of malignancy, and it is necessary to treat surgically, the faster the better! The pathological results after
confirmed Dr. Feng's speculation, and the results showed: right lower lung adenocarcinoma. Fortunately, through the cardiothoracic surgery team's timely and early precision surgical intervention, Chen Chen's lesions were removed, and he could live like a healthy person in the future.
(Extremely small incision, lifting the time bomb in the body)
After learning this news, Chen Chen's mother was unbelievable. She had never heard that elderly people are prone to cancer. How could such a young child suffer from lung cancer? If the child hadn't had that accidental collision, the consequences would be unimaginable after a few years.
These types of situations attach importance to physical examination
Like Chen Chen's mother, many people believe that cancer is an adult disease and has little to do with children. But in fact, the younger age of cancer has long been no longer a new term.
Doctor Feng said that this is not the first case of childhood lung cancer he took over. Since most children do not undergo regular physical examinations like adults, they are easily overlooked.
"In the case of Chen Chen, if someone in his family suffers from lung cancer, you should pay special attention." Feng Xing said that lung cancer has certain family history characteristics. If there are lung cancer patients in the family, the chances of other family members will also increase.Like Chen Chen, there is no obvious inducing factor, and his family doesn’t smoke, which is basically a matter of genetic susceptibility. For such families, physical examinations should be paid more attention to.
In addition, Dr. Feng also reminded that we should pay attention to the lung nodules found in in the physical examination center. Although not all lung nodules develop cancer, and most of the lung nodules are benign, it is not ruled out that some of them are early tumors or precancerous lesions . In this case, doctors will recommend follow-up, which is an effective means to detect early cancers in a timely manner and should be taken seriously.
He suggested that those who are suffering from lung cancer among close relatives must pay attention to the screening of lung cancer and should undergo lung CT examinations more diligently than ordinary people.
For ordinary people, after the age of 40, they should undergo a low-dose chest spiral CT test every year to detect early lung cancer.
Early lung cancer undergoes timely minimally invasive surgical treatment. The surgery has little trauma, mild pain, less resection of lung tissue, and quick recovery. More importantly, the long-term effect is good. Most of them can achieve clinical cure without any other treatment after the operation, and can achieve long-term survival.
Source of this article: West Lake Voice
Editor: Big V
