Lung cancer causes various effects in the body and start to spread when necessary treatment were not taken at right time.The following slide shows some of information about secondary cancer

1. Secondary Cancer in Lung
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2. 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
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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.

4. • 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

6. Symptoms of Secondary Cancer
• Cough
• Breathlessness
• Pain or discomfort
• Chest infections
• Weight loss
• A pleural effusion

8. 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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10. Treatment
The treatment helps to control the tumour and any
symptoms. Some of the treatment
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are,
• Radiotherapy
• Chemotherapy
• Surgery
• Steroids
• Hormone therapy

12. • 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.

14. • 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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