Advanced symptoms of lung cancer

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Lung cancer is a terrible disease, and the harm of lung cancer to patients is also serious. My uncle has been diagnosed with lung cancer for some time. For patients with lung cancer, early detection and early treatment should be done. Now I will tell you about the symptoms of advanced lung cancer.

Advanced symptoms of lung cancer

Symptom 1: Patients with advanced lung cancer often have chest tightness and chest pain, which may be caused by tumor cells invading normal tissues; easy fatigue is due to tumor cells absorbing most of the body's nutrients.

Symptom 2: primary tumor usually presents as cough, hemoptysis or hemoptysis, shortness of breath or wheezing, fever and weight loss; once it extends to the chest, there are chest pain, hoarseness, dysphagia, pleural effusion, superior vena cava syndrome and Horner syndrome.

Symptom 3: when the tumor metastases to the chest, it may metastasize to the central nervous system, bone, abdomen or nearby lymph nodes, causing the corresponding systemic symptoms; in addition, carcinoid syndrome, hypercalcemia and other manifestations can appear.

matters needing attention

Lung cancer patients with this disease should be positive and optimistic attitude to face and treat this disease, lung cancer because this disease is more special, found that most of them are malignant in advanced stage, the prognosis is relatively poor. If the opportunity of surgery is lost, symptomatic support treatment is often used. This kind of treatment can only relieve symptoms, but can not prolong life.