If you have been clinically identified as having lung cancer, be sure to follow your doctor’s instructions about calling him when you have issues, new signs, or signs that get more intense.
Call emergency services instantly if you:
- Have new or rapid start of discomfort in stomach area that is smashing or compressing, is improving in intensity, or occurs with any other signs of cardiac arrest.
- Have new or rapid breathlessness.
- Are coughing up a lot of blood (not just lines of blood vessels or a bit of blood vessels mixed with a lot of mucus) from your respiration system.
- Have been vomiting and feel that you may pass out when you sit up or stand.
- Call your physician instantly for healthcare assessment if you have:
- Labored, superficial, rapid respiration with breathlessness or coughing, even when you are relaxing.
- Swelling of your neck and face.
Call your physician to discover out when an assessment is needed if you:
- Have new discomfort in stomach area (more than just discomfort when you cough) that continues a while and gets more intense when you relax.
- Develop signs of pneumonia, such as breathlessness, hacking and coughing, and fever.
- Have a cough that produces a bit of bloody (bright red or rust-colored) mucus.
- Frequently hacking and paying green or yellow sputum from your respiration system (not postnasal drainage) for more time than 2 days.
- Vomit regularly from coughing.
- Have a coughing that continues more time than 4 weeks.
- Breathe normally when you are at rest but are very short of breath after any workout.
- Have increasing fatigue for no reason.
- Have mysterious weight-loss.
Watchful Waiting
Watchful waiting is a time period during which you and your physician observe your condition or signs but you do not receive therapy. Careful waiting is not appropriate if you have signs that do not go away. If you are concerned about your signs and believe you may be at danger for lung cancer, call and visit your physician.
It is often difficult to decide when to see a physician for breathing signs.
Who To See
Health experts who can assess your signs and your danger for lung cancer include:
- Family medicine physician.
- General specialist.
- Internist.
- Nurse specialist.
- Physician assistant.
- Pulmonologist.
Health experts who can assess and treat your lung cancer include:
- Pulmonologist.
- Medical oncologist.
- Thoracic surgeon.
- Radiation oncologist.