Lung

■■Illness of Lung■■　


■Lung cancer		Diffculty:★★★★☆
Lung cancer is the cancer which occurs in a lung. According its character, grade of malignancy, etc. Lung cancers are classified as follows.

	Histological type	Feature
Non-small cell lung cancer	Adenocarcinoma	Frequency is the highest in lung cancer. Women tend to have this cancer. Iit is easy to appear in the peripheral portion of a lung, and the condition doesn't come out frequently.
	Squamous cell carcinoma	Men tend to have this cancer. There is a relation with smoking. It it is easy to appear in central portions, such as a bronchus, and the condition comes out frequently.
	Large cell carcinoma	Frequency is low. It appears in the peripheral portion of a lung. The cancer grows fast.
Small cell lung cancer		It consists of small cells. Medical treatment is the most difficult in lung cancer. Men tend to have this cancer. It is related to smoking.

Because there are many symptoms like a cold such as cough and sputum, we can't fide the lung cancer easily. Go to the hospitals immediately if you feel abnormality.

■Symptom

Main symptoms of the lung cancer include the following.

・Cough
・Sputum
・Chest pain

■Therapeutic method

We use different therapeutic method of the lung cancer by its type, so we introduce "Gefitinib" as a representative here.

Component name	Gefitinib
Usage	Taking orally
Structure	This medicine prevents the increase of the cancer cells by intercepting the signal necessary for cancer cells to multiply.
Side effects	Rash, diarrhea, nausea, a nail disorder, the disorder of function of liver, and sevens Johnson syndrome, the athe acute lung injury, etc.

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■Pneumonia	Difficulty:★★★★☆
Pneumonia means that a lung causes inflammation by a certain cause. Pneumonia can roughly be classified according to a cause as follows.

Infectious pneumonia	"Mycoplasmal pneumonia" etc.
Mechanical pneumonia	When food is in the lungs by mistake, it is generated.
Drug-related pneumonia	It is generated in side effects of the medicine.

■Symptom

Main symptoms of pneumonia include the following things.

・Fever Cough
・Sputum
・Dyspnea

These symptoms may appear gradually.

■Therapeutic method

We introduce "clarithromycin" which works well for popular mycoplasmal pneumonia these days.

Component name	Clarithromycin
Usage	Taking orally
Structure	It prevents a bacterial increase in needing that a certain ribosome cannot make the protein which is necessary for the increase of the cell in bacteria which causes pneumonia.
Side effects	Reduction, hemorrhagic colitis, etc. of the displeasure, rash, and blood platelets, stomachache, diarrhea, nausea, and the belly displeasure,

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