Mr. Liu, who lives in Pukou, Nanjing, is such a lung cancer patient. But his situation is more special because he has given up smoking for 20 years!
Some time ago, Mr. Liu went to Nanjing Chest Hospital because of unbearable chest pain. After examination, the doctor found that there was a 3 cm × 2 cm × 2 cm tumor in the lower lobe of the right lung, which was diagnosed as early lung cancer.
Hearing the diagnosis, Mr. Liu was puzzled. "I quit smoking for 20 years!"
Mr Liu is 60 years old. He started smoking in his teens until he was 40 years old. He was a heavy smoker and smoked more than two packs a day. Why did you quit smoking 20 years ago? According to Mr. Liu, I went to the hospital for examination because of my cough and lung discomfort. The doctor did find a shadow in Mr. Liu's lungs. Although it was later proved to be calcification, Mr. Liu was afraid that he really got lung cancer because of smoking, so he gritted his teeth and gave up smoking for more than 20 years.
Although quitting smoking was uncomfortable at that time, Mr. Liu has never felt uncomfortable with his lungs since then. It was not until February 20 16 that he felt a dull pain in his chest, but he didn't take it to heart or tell his family when he thought that he hadn't smoked for a long time. Later, the chest became more and more painful. Until June 5438+ 10 last year, he felt that something was wrong and secretly went to Nanjing Chest Hospital for examination. The doctor found that his lungs were diseased, but pathological examination was needed to confirm the diagnosis. Unexpectedly, Mr. Liu refused further examination, insisted that his lungs were fine and went home again.
Until the end of this year, chest pain has not disappeared, and it is getting more and more severe. Finally, Mr. Liu still couldn't stop to tell his family. Hearing this, the family quickly "escorted" him to the chest hospital and was finally diagnosed with early lung cancer.
He didn't get lung cancer because he quit smoking. It was these actions that hurt him. ...
Doctors say that for smokers, the occurrence of lung cancer needs internal and external factors. The external cause is the time and quantity of smoking. For example, if a person smokes 20 cigarettes a day for 20 years, the smoking index of this person is 400, and the risk of lung cancer is much higher for people over 400. Most people who decide to quit smoking are long-term smokers. Considering that they should pay attention to their health when they are old, the smoking index has reached about 400 or even higher, and they have reached their forties and fifties. This is the internal cause, because this is the time when the immune system of the body declines. If you smoke when you are young, your body's immune system can still detect the appearance of cancer cells, or even annihilate them. But when your immune system is weak in your forties and fifties, lung cancer will occur at this time. Whether you quit smoking or not, the risk at this time is the same. They just didn't realize the benefits of quitting smoking before they got sick. This is also the reason why doctors suggest giving up smoking as soon as possible.
However, the doctor is quite strange about Mr. Liu's situation. There are many cases of lung cancer in the outpatient department of thoracic surgery in Nanjing Chest Hospital after smoking cessation for four or five years, but such a long time of 20 years is really rare.
After careful questioning, the doctor learned the truth. It turned out that Mr. Liu got lung cancer not because he quit smoking, but probably because these factors induced the long-dormant lesions in his body-
1, often smoke secondhand smoke.
Mr. Liu is a little black car driver. Usually there are always guests smoking in the car. Mr. Liu never dissuaded him, because he was once a heavy smoker himself, and he knew what it was like to smoke a cigarette. In addition, he feels that he just doesn't smoke, and at most he just opens the window to spread the flavor. However, since last year, Mr. Liu has felt exhausted. When others smoke, he feels chest tightness and breathlessness, but he is not good at dissuading guests, so he can only endure it.
2. Exercise rain or shine
Since quitting smoking 20 years ago, Mr. Liu has exercised every day for health, rain or shine.
When I hear this, you may say, Bian Xiao, are you crazy? How good it is to exercise! But if you look at Mr. Liu's exercise habits again, you will know why the doctor said that exercise actually hurt him.
The exercise time is wrong
Mr. Liu goes out to exercise at 4 o'clock every morning. ...
You may not know that the air in the morning is not fresh, and it may even be when the air pollution is serious. According to meteorological statistics, the air index in the morning is very bad in a year (especially from 5 to 8 o'clock). During this period, an inversion layer will appear in the lower atmosphere over the land, with a height of 200- 1000 meters. This temperature layer is like a hood, which makes more smoke and impurities in the city gather under it, and the air disturbance is small in the morning, which makes it difficult for smoke and impurities to spread to the upper air and surrounding areas. So choosing early morning exercise is very bad for your health.
In addition, from a physiological point of view, early morning is not the best time for exercise. Psychological research has proved that the best time for exercise is normal sleep from 4 pm to night, and the exercise effect is the best. At this time, the temperature of various organs and muscles of the human body is the highest, and the flexibility of joints is also at its best. When the body temperature rises, people will have a strong desire to exercise. At this time, the exercise will be more conscious and harder, thus receiving better exercise results. A higher body temperature is good for almost all sports. This is one of the reasons why more and more sports finals are chosen in the afternoon or evening in recent years.
Exercise whether the weather is good or bad.
Choosing the worst air time to exercise is not good for your health, especially in foggy days. This is the case with Mr. Liu. Even with the warning of serious air pollution, he can't go out for exercise.
Smog weather can easily lead to the decline of the defense function and lung function of the respiratory system, while during strenuous exercise, the breathing rhythm is accelerated and deepened, and the harmful gases inhaled into the body will be several times more than usual. Some harmful substances will become more toxic when combined with water vapor, such as sulfur dioxide becoming sulfuric acid or sulfite, chlorine hydrolyzing into hydrogen chloride or hypochlorous acid, and fluoride hydrolyzing into hydrogen fluoride. So the air pollution in foggy days is much more serious than usual.
Exercise in the wrong place
Mr. Liu likes jogging along the road for exercise, but he is not very healthy. Because cars are coming and going on the city roads now, it is easy to make the dust fly. Running along the road will inhale more harmful gases and particles, which will actually increase the harm to the body while exercising.
Doctor reminds: Early screening is very important!
Fortunately, because of timely treatment, Mr. Liu's lung tumor was cured by a small minimally invasive operation. The next day, Mr. Liu got out of bed and was discharged for a week. As long as the living environment is good and the exercise style is correct in the future, longevity is not a big problem ~
Therefore, for lung cancer and any other cancer, early screening is very important! For example, lung cancer, early detection, a 3 cm hole in the chest can complete the operation, and the postoperative effect is also very good. But if it develops to the middle and late stage, even if you don't say that you are suffering, there is no significance of laparotomy.