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Suggest Treatment For High WBC Levels With Chest Pain

44 yr old Male, has smoked in the past,has a 4cm x 3.5 cm lesion on one lung with excessive sweating, loss of weight, coughing up blood, stabbing pain in the chest and back on one side only with general weakness.blood work showed slightly elevated white blood cells
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Thanks for your question on Healthcare Magic.
I can understand your concern.
You are having mass like lesion on lung, sweating, hemoptysis (blood in sputum), chest pain and you are past smoker, so possibility of either lung infection (pneumonia) or lung cancer is more.
Slightly elevated total white cell count is seen with both, pneumonia and lung cancer.
So better to consult pulmonologist and get done
1. Clinical examination of respiratory system
2. CT thorax
3. Sputum examination for tuberculosis
4. Bronchoscopy and BAL analysis.
All these reports are needed to confirm the diagnosis of pneumonia and lung cancer.
Treatment of both these is different. So better to first diagnose yourself and then start appropriate treatment.
Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
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Suggest Treatment For High WBC Levels With Chest Pain

Thanks for your question on Healthcare Magic. I can understand your concern. You are having mass like lesion on lung, sweating, hemoptysis (blood in sputum), chest pain and you are past smoker, so possibility of either lung infection (pneumonia) or lung cancer is more. Slightly elevated total white cell count is seen with both, pneumonia and lung cancer. So better to consult pulmonologist and get done 1. Clinical examination of respiratory system 2. CT thorax 3. Sputum examination for tuberculosis 4. Bronchoscopy and BAL analysis. All these reports are needed to confirm the diagnosis of pneumonia and lung cancer. Treatment of both these is different. So better to first diagnose yourself and then start appropriate treatment. Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.