Dr. Yasser Abdel Qader, professor of oncology at Qasr Al-Ainy Medicine, and the private physician of the late artist Hisham Selim, revealed that they are being treated for lung cancer in the later stages of the disease due to smoking, explaining that he has discovered the disease only in its advanced stages, so he was treated for a whole year in a Dar Al Fouad hospital.
Dr Yasser Abdel Qader said in an exclusive statement to “The Seventh Day” that artist Hisham Selim took chemotherapy and immunotherapy but was relapsing into his treatment advances and this is normal with late stage lung cancer. of the disease.
Dr Yasser Abdel Qader pointed out that lung cancer was only discovered in its advanced stages because the nature of the disease is that it does not appear with clear symptoms that the patient can detect early, explaining that 70% of lung cancer cases it is not detected except in the advanced stages of the disease, indicating that sputum bleeding is one of the signs of advanced lung cancer.
He stressed that the goal of treatment in the advanced stages is to increase the patient’s life expectancy and relieve pain, noting that he was treated in Egypt at Dar Al Fouad hospital.
He explained, that Corona made us discover many cases of lung cancer in its early stages, thanks to the CT scan required to the Corona patient to confirm the diagnosis, noting that smoking is one of the main factors and affects non-smokers too, as well as ‘environmental pollution.
Dr Yasser Abdel Qader explained that the artist, Hisham Selim, was being treated for lung cancer for a full year but relapsed after the treatment, noting that he was a person of great creativity, taste and respect. , and he was a great personality and a co-worker with doctors and nurses and he responded to doctors’ orders, and was on the last call. He thanks me and the medical team for treating him.
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