What are the symptoms of advanced lung cancer? Five common symptoms of advanced lung cancer

When our bodies are attacked by cancer, people are most concerned about how long their lives can last. Experts say that for diseases like lung cancer, if we want to understand our condition, we should look at its symptoms. So, what are the symptoms of late-stage lung cancer?

1. Tumors are formed by the malignant proliferation of cancer cells and can be felt by hand on the surface or deep inside the body. Thyroid, parotid or breast cancer can be felt in the shallow part of the skin. Tumor metastasis to lymph nodes can cause lymph node enlargement. Some superficial lymph nodes, such as cervical lymph nodes and axillary lymph nodes, are easy to feel.

2. Pain Pain often indicates that cancer has entered the middle or late stages. It usually starts as dull pain or dull pain, which is more obvious at night. It gradually gets worse and becomes unbearable, day and night. Severe pain is a symptom of advanced lung cancer before death. If it occurs, it is usually controlled by drugs. Pain is generally caused by cancer cells invading the nerves. Many patients with advanced lung cancer feel extremely painful, and even taking medicine does not work.

3. Hoarseness The recurrent laryngeal nerve that controls the left side of the voice function goes down from the neck to the chest, bypasses the large blood vessels of the heart and goes back up to the larynx, thus controlling the left side of the voice organ. Therefore, if the tumor invades the left side of the mediastinum and compresses the recurrent laryngeal nerve, hoarseness will occur, but there will be no sore throat or other symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection.

4. Bleeding is caused by cancer tissue invading blood vessels or rupture of small blood vessels in cancer tissue. For example, patients with advanced lung cancer may cough up blood and have blood in their sputum; patients with stomach, colon, and esophageal cancer (esophageal cancer: a malignant tumor that occurs in the epithelial tissue of the esophagus, which can be cured in the early and middle stages but is more difficult to cure in the late stages) may have blood in their stools.

5. Ulcers are formed due to the rapid growth of cancerous tissues in some surface cancers, insufficient nutrition supply, and tissue necrosis. For example, some breast cancers may cause crater-like or cauliflower-like ulcers in the breast, secreting bloody secretions, and may have a foul odor when complicated by infection. In addition, stomach and colon cancers can also form ulcers, which can generally only be observed through gastroscopy and colonoscopy.

6. Shortness of breath, pleural effusion. Almost all patients with advanced lung cancer that have spread regionally have shortness of breath to varying degrees. Normal tissue fluid produced by the lungs and myocardium is returned by the lymph nodes in the center of the chest. If these lymph nodes are blocked by tumors, these tissue fluids will accumulate in the pericardium to form pericardial effusions or accumulate in the chest cavity to form pleural effusions. Both of the above situations can cause shortness of breath. In fact, the length of our lives is not determined by the disease itself. Just like lung cancer, if we can face its existence correctly with an optimistic attitude, our lives can be extended for a few more years, and fear and fear will aggravate the deterioration of the disease. The above content is an introduction to the symptoms of advanced lung cancer. Do you understand it?