What are the symptoms of lung cancer? If you have these 5 symptoms, be careful it might be lung cancer

Many people suffer from lung cancer, but when they find out they are sick and go to the hospital for treatment, it is already in the late stage, so they cannot achieve good treatment effects. This is very regrettable. Therefore, we should clearly know some symptoms of lung cancer, especially the early manifestations, which will help to achieve early detection and early treatment. Here are some symptoms of lung cancer.

1. Cough is one of the most common symptoms of early lung cancer. It is usually an irritating cough with blood. It is characterized by middle-aged and elderly people suddenly coughing up blood or sputum with blood. Some people spit out bloody sputum repeatedly, and it keeps happening.

2. Shortness of breath. Pneumonia caused by cancer obstruction, atelectasis, malignant pleural effusion, diffuse alveolar lesions, etc. can all cause shortness of breath. Late-stage patients may develop obvious cachexia.

3. Arthritis, which may first appear when the lung cancer lesions are small and difficult to detect, manifests as migratory arthritis symptoms. Burning pain in the elbows, knees, wrists, ankles, metacarpophalangeal joints, movement disorders, and possible hyperplasia of the elbow and tibia and fibula periosteal membranes are called rheumatoid arthritis-like arthritis. The pain can disappear 24 hours after lung surgery.

4. Chest tightness and pain, generally mild symptoms, unclear location. When the tumor invades the pleura and chest wall, the pain intensifies and the location is clearer and more constant than before.

5. Hoarseness accompanied by wheezing, obvious swelling on one side of the neck; smaller palpebral fissure on one side, drooping eyelid, constricted pupil, etc., which may sometimes occur when lung symptoms are not yet obvious.