What are the symptoms of lung cancer? Four common symptoms of lung cancer patients

The early symptoms of lung cancer are not typical or obvious, and are very easy to be ignored. Generally, early lung cancer is mainly manifested by coughing, accompanied by certain chest pain and chest tightness. When patients pay attention to these conditions, it is often advanced lung cancer. The following is a detailed introduction to the symptoms of lung cancer:

1. Hemoptysis

Half of lung cancer patients have this symptom. If a male smoker over 40 years old has blood in his sputum, blood streaks or small blood clots, the possibility of lung cancer is quite high, and coughing up blood is one of the early symptoms of lung cancer.

2. Cough

This is the most common early symptom of lung cancer, and most lung cancer patients have this symptom. It can be a mild dry cough or a severe cough, with varying amounts of sputum. However, in lung cancer patients with chronic long-term coughs, if the nature of the cough changes, or the frequency of coughing increases or the cough occurs at night, they should be alert to lung cancer.

3. Chest tightness and shortness of breath

This is also a common early symptom of lung cancer. In addition to the lung cancer tumor blocking the bronchus and causing atelectasis and lung inflammation which can cause chest tightness and shortness of breath, it is generally more obvious in the late stages of lung cancer, especially when a large amount of pleural effusion is present.

4. Chest pain

Forty percent of lung cancer patients may experience pulmonary chest pain, which is generally intermittent and mild chest pain. It manifests as dull pain or drilling pain, and this symptom can last from minutes to hours. This is also one of the early symptoms of lung cancer.

Lung cancer also has other manifestations, such as shoulder and back pain, bone and joint pain, etc. If we look at it from the surface, these two aspects have nothing to do with lung cancer, but in fact, these two symptoms are one of the main symptoms of lung cancer, especially for the elderly. We need to pay enough attention to these two situations.