An 11-year-old boy was diagnosed with lung nodules, which turned into lung cancer a year later! Just because he ignored it...

"If I hadn't fallen

I really don’t know what will happen. I’m scared just thinking about it.”

An accidental fall

She found out that her 11-year-old son had lung cancer.

To this day, Chen Chen's mother is still in shock.

What she could never have imagined was

At such a young age

My son is associated with the so-called "adult cancer"

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According to reports

11-year-old Chen Chen usually goes to school in Fuyang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang

A sixth-grade student

The alarm bells were sounded a year ago.

One day last year

Chen Chen accidentally fell and injured his chest

Because the pain is unbearable

The family immediately took him to the hospital for consultation.

Just to be safe

The doctor ordered a CT scan for him.

Fortunately, it was only a skin injury.

But I discovered

A 5mm ground glass nodule in his right lower lung

Request for follow-up on time

Because it didn't hurt or itch, my family didn't take it seriously.

I gradually forgot about this matter...

Just two years ago

Chen Chen's grandmother was also diagnosed with lung nodules during a physical examination.

During this year's routine physical examination

Found this nodule

It has developed into a 4cm suspicious shadow.

The doctor suggested that my grandmother should go for further examination.

Finally, my grandmother was diagnosed with lung cancer.

after

My grandmother came to the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery of Hangzhou First People's Hospital

She underwent minimally invasive surgery, which was successful.

Chen Chen's mother felt a little guilty:

It would be better if I took this lung nodule seriously and had surgery earlier.

At the same time, I also thought of the nodules on my son's lungs.

Consult a doctor immediately

After reading Chen Chen's CT report from a year ago

The doctor had a bad feeling.

Doctor's intuition

He believes that Chen Chen's lung nodule is extremely high risk

I immediately arranged a CT scan for him.

Only the right lower lung nodule is seen close to the lung membrane

Pleural traction

All signs pointed to a bad outcome:

There is a high possibility of malignancy

Surgery is necessary, the sooner the better!

Afterwards, the medical team performed minimally invasive surgery on Chen Chen.

Precise excision of lesions

The postoperative pathological results confirmed the doctor's speculation

The results showed: right lower lung adenocarcinoma

Chen Chen's mother couldn't believe the result. She had only heard that older people were more likely to get cancer. How could such a young child get lung cancer? If it hadn't been for that accident, and the child hadn't been checked, the consequences would have been disastrous in a few years.

Fortunately

Timely and early precision surgical intervention by the cardiothoracic surgery team

Chen Chen's lesion was completely removed

He can live like a healthy person in the future

Tiny incision to defuse the time bomb in the body

actually

Cancer at a younger age is no longer a new term

Hangzhou First People's Hospital

Deputy Chief Physician Feng Xing from the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery said

This is not the first case of childhood lung cancer he has treated.

Since most children don't

Have a regular full body check-up

Instead, it will be easily ignored

"In a situation like Chen Chen

Someone in your family has lung cancer

You have to pay extra attention.”

Feng Xing said that lung cancer has certain family history characteristics. If there is a lung cancer patient in the family, the chances of other family members getting lung cancer will also increase. For example, Chen Chen has no obvious predisposing factors, and no one in his family smokes. This is basically a problem of genetic susceptibility. For such families, physical examinations should be given more attention.

In addition, Feng Xing also reminded that we should pay attention to the lung nodules found during physical examinations. Although not all lung nodules will develop into cancer, and most lung nodules are benign, it is not ruled out that some are early tumors or precancerous lesions. In this case, the doctor will recommend follow-up, which is an effective means to detect early cancer in time and should be highly valued.

He suggested that if a close relative has lung cancer

Lung cancer screening should be emphasized

For most people, after the age of 40

A low-dose spiral CT scan of the chest should be performed once a year.

Early detection of lung cancer

Source: Guangdong Public DV site compiled from Metropolitan Express, Chengdu Business Daily, Sichuan Famous Doctors