Lung cancer in pregnant women

Lung Cancer In Pregnant Women

Lung Cancer

• The lung cancer is not confined to particular group of person, they make effect irrespective of all age groups from infant to old aged.

• The lung cancer, is the malignant tumors which causes major death.

• The slides below uniquely explains about the lung cancer in the pregnant women, treatment, causes and symptoms.

Lung Cancer In Pregnant Women

• They are prone to lung cancer even during or after the pregnancy.

• Lung cancer in the pregnant women also effect the fetus in most cases.

• The occurrence of lung cancer during pregnancy is relatively low compared to other condition of getting lung cancer.

• In most cases, babies are recovered from being affected by the cancer through increase in medical technology.

Causes• Despite smoking is the major cause of lung cancer(

http://www.slideshare.net/leeshin12/why-tobacco-is-major-cause-for-lung-cancer) , there are several other factors like:

• Exposed to asbestos and radon• Intake of tobacco by any means• Hereditary• Intake of non-healthy diet.

Symptoms

• Respiratory symptoms like cough, breathing trouble, dyspnea, etc.. This may be due to dehydration or infection

• Vomiting• Feeling tired or weak.• Hoarseness• Chest pain • Shortness of breath

Treatment Process• the pregnant women will be concerned over the fetus

being caught by lung cancer, such situation will be arise in certain situation, early diagnosis and treatment can change both the women and the baby, Before the start of the treatment process

• Treatment process of lung cancer(https://youtu.be/Jp9oxCRUVDs).

• It is necessary to provide counseling to the concern woman which is done to develop the confidence in her to fight the lung cancer. Then the apt treatment methodologies follows

• The treatment methodologies of the lung cancer changes deepening on the types of lung cancer and the body conditions.

• Some other things to consider are the complications of the lung tumor, condition of the baby in mother’s womb, health condition of the concern person etc…

• Some of the treatment process are mentioned below

Surgery• The surgery is of four types and they are chosen based on

the effected areas.

• In the surgical treatment process (https://youtu.be/6kd_yPvCJVU ), the affected part is removed considering the capacity of the person to breathe without the specific part and the probability of not developing the cancer in the future.

• In this process of treatment, the baby has less chance of being getting affected.

Radiotherapy

• This is the process which utilizes ionized radiation to kill the cancer cell.

• This is the treatment most often done after the surgery in order to prevent the cancer from spreading or recurring.

• Doctors do not opt for this treatment process in all the trimesters, they wait for the baby to born, else, this process may effect the developing fetus.

Chemotherapy

• This is the process of utilizing chemicals and drugs to kill the cancerous cells.

• This type are recommended at the second and third trimesters, as the placenta acts as the divider between the baby and the mother.

• Chemotherapy at earlier stage may leads to loss of pregnancy and in the later stage may cause side-effects on the developed baby.

• These are some of the common symptoms and the treatment methodologies of the lung cancer in pregnant women.

• There are even some restriction post treatment that women who had undergone chemotherapy and radiotherapy are restricted to breast feed as the chemicals and the radiation passed many affect the newborn.

• Lung Cancer Symptoms is one of the blogs which shows more data and article regarding the lung cancer, types, symptoms and treatment process.

• The updation regarding the lung cancer treatment process ant causes can also be ingrained by visiting to http://lungcancersymptomsx.com.

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