In this article, we will consider one of the types of malignant tumors - sarcoma. It can appear in absolutely any organ, since it originates from connective tissue, or rather, its cells. The human respiratory system is no exception and may also be susceptible to the formation of an inferior tumor.
What is lung
sarcoma ?
What types of sarcoma are there and why can it develop?
A characteristic feature of this type of oncology is the rapid development and emergence of multiple metastases. The neoplasm can be localized in the upper parts of the lungs or completely affect the entire organ. What is a sarcoma, we have already examined, and what are its types? There are two groups:
- With a high level of malignancy.
- With a low level of malignancy.
Why lung sarcoma develops, it is impossible to say unequivocally, as well as about other types of cancer, but several factors that provoke it can be distinguished:
- long-term exposure or exposure to large doses of radiation;
- bad heredity;
- the presence of carcinogens in the air;
- inflammation in the lung tissue;
- bad habits, in particular smoking.
How can sarcoma be recognized?
Depending on the location of the tumor, its size and stage of development, the patient may experience the following symptoms:
- constant shortness of breath;
- coughing attacks;
- sputum, sometimes with an admixture of blood;
- pain when swallowing;
- the appearance of lung tissue diseases such as pleurisy, pneumonia;
- in the late stages of tumor development with an increase in its size, a syndrome of compression of the superior vena cava occurs;
- standard signs of oncology: nausea, headache, vomiting, causeless weight loss, fever, fatigue, weakness.
As a rule, many of the above signs of the disease appear only in the last stages. To determine what sarcoma is and whether the patient has it, certain studies help doctors. This is a blood test (allows you to detect cancer cells), angiography (checking the vessels responsible for supplying blood to the tumor), Echo-KG (allows you to detect stagnation in the right heart), radiography (allows you to detect the formation and its size), CT and MRI, biopsy (allows you to examine a tumor sample taken from a patient).
Is lung sarcoma treatable?
The sooner this disease is detected, the better. Treatment of sarcoma involves a combination of measures to combat cancer. The success of a medical intervention will be directly related to the stage of tumor development, the prevalence of metastases, their location and the general condition of the patient's body. In the fight against a lung tumor, the surgical method is used (in the early stages it is possible to cut out the neoplasm, and in the later stages it is used to alleviate the symptoms of the patient), chemotherapy (allows you to increase life expectancy and is actively used as an adjunct to the first method) and radiation therapy ( allows to reduce the size of education in the preoperative period). We examined what lung sarcoma is and how it is treated.