The Importance of Follow-up Care

After the patients go through lung cancer treatment, it is very necessary that they go through followup care, which is an essential part after surgery or chemotherapy or radiation. The followup care requires regular checkups to ensure that any changes in health of the patient is noticed, and if cancer returns or a new cancer develops, it can be treated as soon as possible. Checkups usually include physical examinations, chest x-rays, and blood tests.

Providing Emotional Support to Someone Suffering With Lung Cancer

As we believe that treating the lung cancer is essential to help the patient survive, at the same time it is very important that the individual suffering through such disease receive emotional support as well. It is pretty understandable that living with a serious disease such as cancer can be very demanding. It is natural that besides having to cope with physical and medical challenges, individuals with cancer face many doubts, fears, feelings and concerns that can make life difficult for not only them, but those around them as well.
They need our help to help them cope with the emotional disturbances that are going on in their lives, as well as the realistic aspects of their illness. So there are counselors whose job is to provide these individuals with mental comfort and let them know as to how everyone is so close to them and working in conjunction as a team to help them along with the involvement of their families and things are pretty hopeful and that they shouldn’t lose hope. Therefore, counseling is a major aspect that is being provided to the patients so they can improve in their emotional well being and help to heal as quickly as possible.

LUNG CANCER

• Introduction
• Types of Lung Cancer
• Symptoms of Lung Cancer
• Who's at risk of Lung Cancer?
• Lung Cancer Diagnosis
• Staging Lung Cancer
• Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Alternative Lung Cancer Treatment
• Chemotherapy
• Early Detection Symptoms
• Recognition Of Early Symptoms
• Early Symptoms and Diagnosis
• Endstage Lung Cancer
• Lung Cancer Prognosis
• Stage 4 Lung Cancer
• Non Small Lung Cancer
• Treatment for Lung Cancer
• Lung Cancer Medications
• Side Effects of Lung Cancer Treatments
• Lung Cancer Care
• Questions to ask the doctor
• Adenocarcinoma Lung Cancer
• Lung Cancer Research
• Mesothelioma Asbestos Lung Cancer
• Metastatic Lung Cancer
• Oat Cell Lung Cancer
• Lung Cancer - A Deadly Result Due To Smoking
• Smoking and Lung Cancer
• Squamous Cell Lung Cancer