Are hoarseness, chest pain and fever signs of lung cancer? 7 symptoms in the body indicate lung cancer

According to the latest statistics, the incidence of lung cancer ranks second in the world, second only to breast cancer. It ranks first in China and ranks first in the world in terms of mortality. It can be seen that lung cancer poses a huge threat to the world and the people of China. Many people fail to detect lung cancer in its early stages, which leads to the miss of the best treatment opportunity and endangers their lives. Therefore, it is necessary to know the early symptoms of lung cancer and make timely judgments and treatments when it occurs to save lives.

What are the early symptoms of lung cancer?

1. Chest pain

Most diseases can cause pain and discomfort, such as fever, colds, and gastritis, but the discomfort caused by these diseases does not last long and can be improved after treatment. If you have continued pain for unknown reasons after chest trauma, you should be alert to lung cancer.

2. Cough that cannot be cured for a long time

Coughing is a common symptom. Many diseases can cause coughing, such as colds, pneumonia, and eating spicy foods. However, if you cough frequently, especially if it is a dry cough with blood, you should be alert.

3. Persistent hoarseness

When lung cancer metastasis compresses the laryngeal nerve or the recurrent laryngeal nerve, it can cause the vocal cords to be compressed and paralyzed, resulting in hoarseness. This hoarseness can last for a long time.

4. Fever of unknown cause

As the tumor continues to grow, it will become necrotic, which will cause a heat source, causing the body to have an unexplained low-grade fever and persist. If this phenomenon persists, you should seek medical attention in time to find out the cause and rule out lung cancer.

5. Rapid weight loss

If you lose weight quickly in a short period of time without intentionally losing weight or dieting, especially when you have ruled out indigestion, anemia, physical fatigue and other diseases, be aware that it may be related to cancer, lung cancer being a common type.

6. Lumps in the neck and armpits

Lung cancer is metastatic. In the early stages, it will spread along the lymph nodes to the left supraclavicular lymph nodes or axillary lymph nodes. Be alert if you feel any painless lumps by hand.

7. Upper limb numbness and back pain

Lung cancer can metastasize and invade the pleura, ribs, chest wall and shoulder joints, causing shoulder pain and mortem pain. When the brachial plexus is invaded, there will be radiating pain in the upper limbs, which is easily misdiagnosed as frozen shoulder in the early stage. Such patients rarely have respiratory symptoms when they develop the disease, which is easy to be ignored.

Warm reminder: if you find yourself with related symptoms, you should seek medical attention and do relevant examinations in time. The current examinations include X-ray scans, CT, enhanced CT, bronchoscopic biopsy, and skin lung fine needle puncture biopsy. Through examinations to determine whether there is lung cancer, most lung cancers can be cured after effective treatment in the early stage, so that the patient's life will not be affected. If ignored, as the disease progresses to the late stage, it will lead to death. In addition, healthy people can do low-dose CT physical examination screening every year after the age of 40.