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What Is The Treatment For Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?

I have had copd for about 3 yr now and been spitting yup sputum with blood for a month last wed i went to pul specu and he did x ray ct of lungs ordered a bisopy friday and i told him to o\put me to sleep because of my nurveness and i would not make it throght it and i did not but he told me he saw about 1/2 my lung and they looked ok i go back today what should my questions be my mother and father had cancer 2 times and my sister once i am scared
Mon, 30 Oct 2017
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THANK YOU FOR WRITING ME, in COPD there is only two condition where blood in sputum present
1. pneumonia
2. cancer
if you have positive family history then go fot CT scan of chest to rule out cancer.
and quit smoking if you are smoker
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What Is The Treatment For Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?

THANK YOU FOR WRITING ME, in COPD there is only two condition where blood in sputum present 1. pneumonia 2. cancer if you have positive family history then go fot CT scan of chest to rule out cancer. and quit smoking if you are smoker