What are the symptoms of middle and late stage lung cancer? Introduction to the symptoms of middle and late stage lung cancer

The incidence of lung cancer has been gradually increasing in recent years. It is not because people do not understand the disease, but because although they understand it, their busy lives make them forget to prevent the occurrence of the disease, and even forget to find out whether they are sick. So let us take a look at the symptoms of middle and late stage lung cancer.

Patients with mid- to late-stage lung cancer will experience a series of symptoms of compression and metastasis. Chest pain is caused by the tumor invading the pleura, which can cause dull or dull chest pain; the tumor invades the chest wall ribs or compresses the intercostal nerves. In the middle stage of lung cancer, the tumor often invades and infiltrates the adjacent tissues. There will be sharp and severe chest pain, and there will be fixed or local tenderness, which will be aggravated with breathing, coughing, and changing body positions; the tumor invades the left side of the mediastinum, compressing the recurrent laryngeal nerve, and hoarseness will occur, but there will be no other mid- to late-stage lung cancer symptoms such as sore throat and upper respiratory tract infection.

When the tumor enlarges and causes bronchial stenosis, the symptoms of mid- and late-stage lung cancer will include coughing and shortness of breath, which will worsen and become persistent and high-pitched metallic. When there is secondary infection at the distal end of bronchial stenosis, the amount of sputum increases and becomes mucopurulent. The worsening of hemoptysis in patients with mid-stage lung cancer may also be caused by cancer fever caused by degeneration and necrosis of cancerous tissue, and fever is also one of the symptoms.

Pain is also a common symptom in patients with advanced lung cancer. Most patients with regional intrathoracic spread of lung cancer have chest pain. Facial and neck edema is also common. If the tumor invades the right side of the mediastinum and compresses the superior vena cava, the jugular vein will initially become distended due to poor blood flow, and eventually lead to facial and neck edema, which needs to be diagnosed and treated in a timely manner.

This is an introduction to the symptoms of mid-to-late stage lung cancer. I believe we have already understood the harm caused by the disease. Therefore, we must pay attention to this disease in the future. We should not forget the importance of the body because of the busy work. For us, a healthy body is the most important, and a healthy life is the best.