What are the symptoms of lung cancer? To prevent lung cancer, pay attention to these symptoms

When people with frozen shoulder experience worsening pain, they need to rule out the possibility of lung cancer. When symptoms such as coughing, coughing up blood, and arthritis occur, they may have lung cancer. Once again, we urge everyone to have a physical examination every year. Cancer is not terrible if we can detect and treat it early. What is terrible is that it is discovered too late.

Winter is very difficult for people with shoulder and back pain. The incidence of this disease is very high every winter. Generally, patients, especially the elderly, can take a few painkillers and the pain will go away. However, if the shoulder and back pain worsens and becomes more obvious than before, you should be alert to the possibility of lung cancer.

I have a relative who is in this situation. My cousin had periarthritis of the shoulder before, and he had severe shoulder pain this winter. At first, my family thought it was a recurrence of periarthritis of the shoulder. After seeing the symptoms getting worse, they took my cousin to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment. After several tossings, they found out that it was bone metastasis of lung cancer. People usually think that lung cancer should show symptoms such as coughing and shortness of breath. In fact, most patients do not first show lung symptoms such as coughing, hemoptysis, chest tightness and chest pain, but other systemic diseases as the main manifestations. Therefore, lung cancer is very easy to misdiagnose in the early stage. To prevent lung cancer, pay attention to the following symptoms:

1. Male smokers over 45 years old who have long-term chronic lung inflammation accompanied by fever and who have not responded well to conventional treatment should be alert to the possibility of lung cancer;

2. Intermittent, mild chest pain occurs, which may take a few minutes or a few hours to get better. If the tumor has invaded the pleura, persistent, fixed, severe pain will occur.

3. A mild dry cough may occur or it may be a severe cough, and the amount of sputum may vary. People with long-term coughs should also be alert to the possibility of lung cancer if the cough frequency changes or the cough becomes irritating and dry.

4. The patient experiences arthritis symptoms such as pain in the elbows, knees, wrists, ankles, and metacarpophalangeal joints, and has difficulty moving.

5. If male smokers over 40 years old have blood, blood streaks or small blood clots in their sputum, the possibility of lung cancer is quite high.

The reason why cancer makes us panic is that it is not easy to detect the disease in its early stages. So every year we have to spend some money on our health check-ups. We should not refuse to have a check-up because we feel sorry for the money. If we can detect and treat cancer early, it is not scary. What is scary is that it is discovered too late.