Advanced symptoms of lung cancer

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Lung cancer is a terrible disease, and the harm caused by lung cancer to patients is also relatively serious. My uncle suffers from lung cancer. Patients with lung cancer should be treated as soon as possible. Next, I will tell you about the middle and late stages of lung cancer.

Advanced symptoms of lung cancer

Symptom 1: cough is the most common early symptom, about 3 / 4 patients have different degrees of cough. Characterized by paroxysmal irritating cough, no sputum or a small amount of foam white sputum. The enlargement of the tumor may cause bronchial stenosis, and the cough may be aggravated, most of which are persistent.

Symptom 2: hemoptysis is also one of the common first symptoms of lung cancer, showing intermittent repeated small amount of blood sputum, occasionally see massive hemoptysis, blood color is bright red. Hemoptysis duration is different, generally only a few days, but also up to a few months.  

Symptom 3: chest pain, tumor involving the pleura, can produce chest dull pain or dull pain: tumor invasion chest wall ribs or compression intercostal nerve, chest sharp pain, and fixed-point or local tenderness, and with breathing, cough, change position and aggravation.  

matters needing attention

The patients with lung cancer should have a positive and optimistic attitude to face and treat this disease, and should actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment. When the tumor is compressed, blocked, tracheobronchial stenosis, bronchial obstruction leads to atelectasis, or when the lung cancer is widely spread, the patients can have shortness of breath.