Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 675

Chapter 675: Chapter 310: Misfortune Befalls the Unfortunate, the Second Patient’s Fear (Part 2)

This type of substance is classified as highly carcinogenic.

This also leads to a certain potential risk of developing tumors from eating leftover food.

Including many people’s favorites such as pickles, preserved vegetables, smoked fish, and cured meats, all of which can increase the risk of tumors.

Li Jingsheng, during his training at the First Hospital, encountered a real-life case like this. The patients were a couple, both not very old, the husband was thirty-eight, and the wife was a year younger, thirty-seven.

They didn’t have any bad habits, just loved eating pickled vegetables.

They felt unhappy if they didn’t eat them even for a day.

That’s how it was, they ate pickled vegetables from their wedding day until now, until they started feeling unwell and decided to get a check-up at the hospital.

As a result, both were diagnosed with malignant tumors.

The husband had stage II colon cancer, and the wife had advanced stomach cancer.

This is a tragedy.

No one dares to say for sure that their simultaneous cancer diagnosis was definitely caused by eating pickled vegetables, but eating them does indeed increase the risk of tumors.

"Boss, was that patient really suffering from a lung tumor just now?"

Wang Zongxiao asked.

"Most likely, yes."

Li Jingsheng, based on experience, imaging studies, the patient’s symptoms, and disease progression, could basically determine that the patient had a lung tumor.

The likelihood of it being malignant is extremely high.

And it is very likely already in the middle-to-late stages.

"Only thirty years old, what a pity."

Wang Zongxiao shook his head.

"Didn’t he have an examination at the hospital before? How did they miss it then?"

"Weren’t you also working in a big hospital for many years? Why are you asking me that?"

Li Jingsheng gave him a side-eye.

"Even with a lung CT, some tumors might not be detected. It’s possible that the tumor hadn’t developed yet at that time, or it was still very small."

Tumors smaller than 1cm are hard to detect with normal imaging tests.

The main issue is that the patient went for a check-up five years ago.

For patients with high tumor risk or diagnosed tumors, a follow-up check every three or six months is usually needed.

Not ignoring it for several years.

While they were talking, the next patient sat down beside Li Jingsheng’s desk with a terrified look.

This one also wasn’t very old, looking just over forty.

A man in this age is considered to be in his prime.

The man in front of him had rather fair skin yet sallow complexion and was somewhat frail. This indicated he rarely did any physical labor and lacked physical exercise.

This type of patient’s body is much weaker than those who regularly do physical work.

"Dr. Li, I’m also having some difficulty breathing lately, and the coughing is quite severe. I even noticed some blood in it yesterday. Could I possibly have lung cancer?"

The man’s tone was filled with terror.

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