Late symptoms of lung cancer

Symptoms of patients with advanced lung cancer, not the same as of a certain physical differences in late stage lung cancer, a more serious illness, the need for timely symptomatic treatment of advanced lung cancer, what are the symptoms? Why do they have such symptoms? Is there any way to alleviate the negative symptoms? When the following OK a brief introduction.

Of lung cancer in advanced stage, if the cancer cell invasion and mediastinal, the following symptoms may occur, unfortunately, they appear to make relatively poor prognosis.

1, lung cancer pain

Pain is often shown in patients with advanced lung cancer symptoms of advanced lung cancer patients to why the majority of the pain it would be? Chest is a very complex spatial, three-quarters of lung surface area is surrounded by the chest wall, which is by a thin endometrium (wall layer of pleura), fat, muscle, ribs, and skin composition according to different proportions. Any part of tumor invasion and above will cause pain. A consequence, most have occurred in the regional spread of intrathoracic lung cancer patients have chest pain symptoms. Wrapping the top of the lung, the apex of the place, forming a special area of chest wall. From the neck, the dominant upper extremity sensory and motor nerve fibers were characterized by this area into the upper extremity. Thus, if the tumor invaded to this area tend to feel involved side of upper limb pain, weakness. This so-called "Pancoast cancer", or sulcus lung cancer as a kind of often shoulder the main symptoms. Analgesics such pain often can be alleviated. Usually these patients can easily be sent to orthopedic surgeon or neurologist doctors handle, thus losing the opportunity of early diagnosis.

2, a hoarse voice is one of the symptoms of advanced lung cancer. Control function of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve pronunciation to the chest from the neck down, bypassing the heart of the great vessels back up to the hose line, which dominated the left side of the organ sounds. Therefore, if the tumor invaded the mediastinum on the left, so that the recurrent laryngeal nerve by the oppression, hoarseness will be produced, but no sore throat and other symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection.

3, face, neck edema, symptoms of advanced lung cancer is more common in the mediastinum on the right side superior vena cava, it will come from upper limbs and head and neck venous transferred back to the heart. If the tumor invasion and mediastinal compression on the right superior vena cava, the initial cause jugular vein engorgement due to the poor return, finally also lead to face, neck edema, which requires to be timely diagnosis and treatment.

4, shortness of breath, pleural effusion is also the performance of advanced lung cancer symptoms. In the end, the regional spread of lung cancer occurred almost all patients with varying degrees of shortness of breath. Produced by the normal lung and cardiac tissue fluid from the thoracic lymph nodes back to the middle of the liquid. If these lymph nodes are tumor obstruction, these organizations will accumulate in the pericardial fluid in the formation of the accumulation of pericardial effusion or pleural effusion in the chest cavity formation. In both cases can lead to shortness of breath. However, because many smokers Patients with varying degrees of chronic lung disease, this has caused certain difficulties in identification of shortness of breath.

In addition, as part of the excised tumor lung tissue due to loss of respiratory function, so that is a respiratory dysfunction resulting from breathing discomfort, this discomfort at first only generated when in motion, at the end, when they felt a break.