Early symptoms of lung cancer

Clinical Practice tells us that lung cancer is a common cancer in the elderly is one of the high degree of malignancy, has developed very rapidly once the clinical symptoms, most of them already in the late governance without remedy. Therefore, the early signs of lung cancer if they can arouse people's attention, you can early detection, to take comprehensive measures such as surgery and chemotherapy, is conducive to enhancing therapeutic effect.

Common early symptoms of lung cancer are:

Hemoptysis - lung cancer, one of the most common symptoms of early. Some scholars to the statistics of 312 cases and found that the symptoms first appeared accounted for 40.97%, which is characterized by the elderly sudden hemoptysis, or sputum with blood, while others are recurrent "pneumonia" hematemesis silk sputum, to the thing of the past.

Clubbed fingers - also known as drum hammer means. Expressed as mean, toe section mast, bent nails protruding, often accompanied by pain. Foreign reports, 21% of lung cancer associated with the early oak fingers, and most disappear after lung cancer surgery.

Arthritis - fingers co-exist with the oak can be difficult for a small lung lesion was found to occur when the first demonstrated for the migratory arthritis. Elbow, knee, wrist, ankles, burning like the hands of joint pain, activities of obstacles that may arise elbow kimono fibula bone periosteum hyperplasia, known as the rheumatoid arthritis-like arthritis in the lungs 24 hours after surgery, pain can be disappear.

Gynecomastia - male breast increase if one or both females, Japan, investigated 267 cases of lung cancer, etc. A Pei, in which male breasts early stage accounted for 7.5%, and often easily overlooked, or even misdiagnosed as simple hyperplasia of the breast was removed.

Multiple whole body myositis - is also one of the early symptoms of lung cancer. According to statistics, 85% ahead of the typical symptoms of lung cancer, showed gradual whole body weakness, loss of appetite, increased difficulty in walking when, starting bed difficult.

Other manifestations - such as no obvious reasons for a hoarse voice with asthma; the side of the neck and marked edema; the side of the eye of fissile small, ptosis, miosis and so on, and sometimes in the lungs can also occur when the symptoms is not yet clear.

In the elderly, in particular, tobacco who, as the above-mentioned suspicious symptoms must not be taken lightly, it is timely to hospital for a chest X-ray film or CT examination and so on. It is worth noting that if 15% of early stage lung cancer patients have no symptoms. Therefore, the elderly each year to make a chest X-ray film examination, early detection of lung cancer have a positive meaning.