Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide. In the United States, it causes more cancer-related deaths than the next four causes （breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer） of cancer-r...Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide. In the United States, it causes more cancer-related deaths than the next four causes （breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer） of cancer-related mortality combined （1）. About 30% of people have already progressed to stage III lung cancer and 40% to stage IV at the time they are diagnosed （2）. Although chest X-ray and sputum cytology, when applied in health check-ups, can identify some relatively small tumors, they are not able to lower the overall mortality （3）. More recently,展开更多
To the Editor:The morbidity of thoracic lesions is very high during the treatment of malignant hematological diseases,and tumor recurrence or invasion is common,in addition to infections.Percutaneous lung biopsy or br...To the Editor:The morbidity of thoracic lesions is very high during the treatment of malignant hematological diseases,and tumor recurrence or invasion is common,in addition to infections.Percutaneous lung biopsy or bronchoscopy could result in severe hemoptysis,pneumothorax,or infection because of low platelets and hypo-immunity,and treatment is often ineffective due to the ambiguous diagnosis.Even when a patient is diagnosed with a fungal disease,it is difficult to eliminate the lesion with only antifungal medicine.展开更多
文摘Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide. In the United States, it causes more cancer-related deaths than the next four causes （breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer） of cancer-related mortality combined （1）. About 30% of people have already progressed to stage III lung cancer and 40% to stage IV at the time they are diagnosed （2）. Although chest X-ray and sputum cytology, when applied in health check-ups, can identify some relatively small tumors, they are not able to lower the overall mortality （3）. More recently,
文摘To the Editor:The morbidity of thoracic lesions is very high during the treatment of malignant hematological diseases,and tumor recurrence or invasion is common,in addition to infections.Percutaneous lung biopsy or bronchoscopy could result in severe hemoptysis,pneumothorax,or infection because of low platelets and hypo-immunity,and treatment is often ineffective due to the ambiguous diagnosis.Even when a patient is diagnosed with a fungal disease,it is difficult to eliminate the lesion with only antifungal medicine.
