Tag: Lung
Pulmonologist: everything you need to know about the lung doctor
A pulmonologist is a doctor who specializes in the lungs and respiratory tract (trachea, bronchus, diaphragm, etc.). When to go see it? How is a consultation carried out? What price…
Find out your lung cancer risk with the finger test! You can try this simple test at home
Lung cancer can spread faster than other types of cancer, and about 40,000 people are diagnosed each year. Usually, the symptoms of lung cancer do not appear until the cells…
World first: a lung transplant performed with a robot without opening the thorax
News Published on 04/18/2023 at 7:15 p.m. Updated 04/18/2023 at 7:15 p.m. Reading 4 mins. In Barcelona, a team of thoracic surgeons announces that they have performed the world’s first…
Water in the lung: how to treat pulmonary edema?
Acute pulmonary edema (pulmonary edema or PAO), caused by heart disease, is a medical emergency. What are the causes ? Symptoms ? Cough ? How to treat it? Summary Acute…
Florent Pagny with lung cancer: this first symptom “not bad at first” which should have alerted
In an autobiography to be published on April 5, singer Florent Pagny recounts the diagnosis of his lung cancer and the first symptom to which he initially paid no attention.…
Lung cancer in non-smokers: causes and prognosis
If tobacco is the first risk factor for developing lung cancer, it is not the only one! It is possible to develop lung cancer even if you have never smoked.…
The expert warned: Beware of the risk of enbolism starting in the foot! can have fatal consequences
Enboli (clots) can cause undetected, irreversible results. Failure to properly intervene in the clot that starts in the leg causes the enbolin to clog the pulmonary vessels, creating a fatal…
Lung cancer: lung transplants save two doomed patients
News Published on 03/16/2023 at 6:10 p.m. Updated 03/16/2023 at 6:10 p.m. Reading 2 mins. Recently, two people with “very advanced” lung cancer were saved by a double lung transplant.…
Check it out now! Signs of cancer in the fingers
Lung cancer is very common and ranks first in cancer-related deaths. Early diagnosis of this disease increases the chance of curing the disease. Although it is thought that the symptoms…
Florent Pagny evokes a possible relapse of his lung cancer
News Published on 03/06/2023 at 3:51 p.m. Updated 03/06/2023 at 3:51 p.m. Reading 2 mins. in collaboration with Ivan Pourmir (medical oncologist) In a Sunday evening interview conducted for Seven…