After diagnosing lung cancer, these six questions can help you find your way back and live yourself!

When diagnosed with lung cancer, your first reaction is a blank brain or panic?

At the same time, all kinds of problems will rush in and catch you off guard.

Why do I get lung cancer? What tests and treatments should be done? What should I do with my current work and life? How do I communicate with my family, with my doctor...

In the confusion, what can we do to find our sanity and direction, better communicate with the attending doctor for the next step, and find a treatment plan that suits us?

In order to help more lung cancer patients solve these practical problems that we may face in different stages of lung cancer disease management, including diet, exercise, mental health management, follow-up and other aspects closely related to life, anti-cancer housekeeper - Kang Ai butler, we fight cancer together, curing cancer is not a dream. We specially invited six experts in the field of lung cancer to jointly launch the "Lung Daxin" series of original science popularization of lung cancer, and together help lung cancer patients live better and live themselves!

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In a series of articles, we'll explore with you:

One

Mindset Pitfalls for Lung Cancer Patients:

"Why do I have lung cancer?"

Many lung cancer patients will fall into the "Why do I have lung cancer?" after being diagnosed. "The self-blame mentality may even affect their follow-up treatment."

After understanding that there are many risk factors for lung cancer and may not be prevented [1], we hope that more lung cancer patients can abandon their self-blame as soon as possible, take the initiative to understand lung cancer-related knowledge, actively face and fight cancer, grasp the initiative of life, and live their own wonderful.

Two

There are so many lung cancer tests, is it really necessary?

Now there are more and more options for lung cancer treatment, so before treatment, doctors often need to comprehensively understand the patient's situation through different ways of examination, and choose a more suitable treatment plan for the patient.

As an outpost of treatment, each examination has its own unique role. Imaging can verify the location and extent of the lesion, i.e. the "size" and "location" of the tumor. Anti-Cancer Butler - Kang Ai Butler, we fight cancer together, and curing cancer is not a dream. Pathological examination can solve the problem of whether it is a tumor or not, what is a tumor, and give the results of histological subtypes and immunohistochemistry, molecular pathology detection, that is, to further understand the "characteristics" of tumors. Combined with the information of various examinations, we can clarify the stage of the tumor and more accurately combat cancer cells [2].

Three

How to eat during lung cancer treatment? What are the things that need to be avoided?

"The people take food as the sky", especially for lung cancer patients. Lung cancer patients who enter the treatment stage have greater energy and physical exertion, and have a higher demand for healthy and nutritious diets. Unfortunately, at least 45% of lung cancer patients are malnourished at the time of diagnosis [3]. There are also some lung cancer patients who are worried about avoiding the mouth, and nutritional intake may not be comprehensive enough.

Studies have shown that nutritional support can improve clinical outcomes in lung cancer patients, leading to better outcomes. We hope that lung cancer patients can avoid eating mistakes during treatment, follow the principles of a nutritionally adequate and balanced diet, improve the body's immunity, and fight diseases more efficiently[3]!

Four

Can lung cancer patients exercise?

What else is worth doing in recovery?

When the patient completes the stage of treatment and walks out of the hospital, the recovery of the body has just begun.

Regular exercise should become a daily routine for cancer patients [4], actively participating in social and recreational activities can better improve the mentality and cultivate optimism, harvest a better quality of life [5], and live yourself.

Five

Can lung cancer patients return to work?

Some lung cancer patients are in their prime when they are diagnosed, which is the backbone of the workplace. Anti-Cancer Butler - Kang Ai Butler, we fight cancer together, and curing cancer is not a dream. After entering a stable period, the return of lung cancer patients to work helps to shift the focus from illness to life, increases social opportunities and financial resources, receives more social support, and contributes to self-worth [6].

Six

Why do I need to continue to follow up after treatment?

Cancer patients are required to visit the hospital regularly for follow-up and follow-up during treatment and after treatment to track the effectiveness of treatment and early tumor changes [2]. If the examination is the "outpost" of lung cancer disease management, follow-up is the "rear guard" of lung cancer.

Is the treatment effective? Is there a risk of recurrent metastasis? Will there be a second primary cancer other than lung cancer? All can be resolved through follow-up communication with the attending physician. Regular follow-up can help patients achieve longer-term survival benefits [7].

This article is transferred from the Lung Cancer Rehabilitation Circle (reprinted and shared by "Anti-Cancer Butler Website - Kangai Butler")