Symptoms of Lung Cancer

Are you always in a state of coughing , and hard to control ? Is there blood in the sputum , whether tightness and pain in the chest ? If you have symptoms like the above , after undergoing treatment for 2 weeks still does not look better , need to guard against the occurrence of lung cancer .

Here are the symptoms of lung cancer that is often found

1 . Cough : Due to the size of the tumor , different locations , different types of cough was , among others, a dry cough , sudden cough , wheezing and cough cough pitched metal .
2 . Bloody sputum or hemoptysis : In the beginning there was approximately 15 % of patients had symptoms of cough with phlegm , sputum mostly white . When tumor rupture will appear bloody sputum , hemoptysis can continue , perhaps only for a moment . There are 25 -40 % of lung cancer patients appears hemoptysis . If you frequent cough with phlegm , you can do a sputum cytology examination .
3 . Chest pain : Initial symptoms include discomfort in the chest . When the tumor is touching the wall , the chest can cause persistent pain .
4 . Wheezing sound : If you do not have asthma , but wheezing sound when breathing , guard against lung cancer .
5 . Fever : Due to bronchial obstruction and stasis secretion causing varying degrees of inflammation . When the symptoms of cough , fever , can X- ray examination , bronchoscopy .
6 . Head and facial swelling : Emerging purple skin symptoms , dizziness , vertigo , nasal congestion and other symptoms , worse when supine . In addition, frequent swelling in the upper extremities and neck .
7 . Supraclavicular lymph node enlargement : In the supraclavicular fossa visible lymph nodes are enlarged , at an advanced stage will form lumps .
8 . Dysphagia : Lung cancer metastases to mediastinal lymph nodes , causing compression of the esophagus that have difficulty in swallowing .

Of course , when these symptoms on your body , not necessarily suffering from lung cancer , but it needs to be immediately at diagnosis in the hospital , to rule out the possibility of lung cancer . If you are diagnosed with lung cancer , early examination support lung cancer to get early treatment , which significantly increases the survival rate .