What are the disguises of lung cancer

The common symptoms of lung cancer are mainly stubborn cough and bloody sputum, but we must not forget that this is a malignant tumor that likes to play tricks, often using masks to confuse vision and evade medical treatment. According to cancer experts, nipple lesions are only one of its common masks, and there are five other masks that deserve people's attention:

1. Stroke

The coagulation factors of patients with early lung cancer increase, causing the body to be in a hypercoagulable state, inducing cerebral thrombosis and thus causing a stroke. In addition, the metastasis of lung cancer cells to brain tissue, which damages brain function and causes hemiplegia in patients, is also a factor.

2. Frozen shoulder

The lung cancer lesion is hidden in the apex of the left lung, invading the brachial plexus and causing shoulder and arm pain, which is extremely similar to "frozen shoulder", resulting in misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment and delaying the disease.

3. Joint pain

Some lung cancers first "attack" the bones and joints, causing symptoms such as bone and joint enlargement, swelling, pain, clubbing of fingers (toes), etc., which can easily overwhelm patients and even doctors.

4. Low back and leg pain

The clinical manifestations of lung cancer are diverse. Especially for middle-aged and elderly people with a history of smoking, they should take routine chest X-rays and, when necessary, lung CT scans to detect possible cancer lesions early and minimize the missed diagnosis of lung cancer.

5. Hoarseness

The metastatic lesions of lung cancer appear early and grow faster than the primary lesions, so the first thing that appears is hoarseness, but there are no lung symptoms such as coughing, bloody sputum, etc., which is most likely to cause illusions.