Is it only in movie that a patient affected from Lung Cancer or Tuberculosis coughs heavily?
04.May, 2010
Is it only in movies that a patient affected from Lung Cancer or Tuberculosis coughs heavily and coughs/vomits blood or does it happen in real life too.
It definitely happens quite often in real life.
I’ve seen many hundreds of lung cancer patients.
I have seen five patients who started coughing up blood with lung cancers and died of hemorrhaging within minutes. The lung cancer erodes into a major blood vessel and the end is quick.
People with tuberculosis also cough up blood, but I have not seen many TB patients.
04.May, 2010 um 8:19 pm
NO…. it happens in real life too. there’s heavy coughing in TB n lung cancer…
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04.May, 2010 um 8:34 pm
It definitely happens quite often in real life.
I’ve seen many hundreds of lung cancer patients.
I have seen five patients who started coughing up blood with lung cancers and died of hemorrhaging within minutes. The lung cancer erodes into a major blood vessel and the end is quick.
People with tuberculosis also cough up blood, but I have not seen many TB patients.
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MD medical oncologist – cancer specialist physician for 20 years
04.May, 2010 um 9:13 pm
When the disease becomes active, 75% of the cases are pulmonary TB, that is, TB in the lungs. Symptoms include chest pain, coughing up blood, and a productive, prolonged cough for more than three weeks. Systemic symptoms include fever, chills, night sweats, appetite loss, weight loss, pallor, and often a tendency to fatigue very easily.[4]
In the other 25% of active cases, the infection moves from the lungs, causing other kinds of TB, collectively denoted extrapulmonary tuberculosis.[8] This occurs more commonly in immunosuppressed persons and young children. Extrapulmonary infection sites include the pleura in tuberculosis pleurisy, the central nervous system in meningitis, the lymphatic system in scrofula of the neck, the genitourinary system in urogenital tuberculosis, and bones and joints in Pott’s disease of the spine. An especially serious form is disseminated TB, more commonly known as miliary tuberculosis. Extrapulmonary TB may co-exist with pulmonary TB as well.[9]
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http://en.wikipedia.org
04.May, 2010 um 9:56 pm
heavy and violent coughing may occur in even trivial viral infections and allergic coughs.
coughing out blood happens in a variety of conditions like TB,bronchiectasis,bronchial adenomas,lung cancer and also in acute pulmonary edema.
So its true…it can happen ! ! !
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