What symptoms will patients with advanced lung cancer experience? The three most obvious symptoms of advanced lung cancer

Lung cancer itself will cause unprecedented harm to the patient's body. If the patient is in the late stage of lung cancer, timely treatment of the disease is particularly important. Many patients with late stage lung cancer are very concerned about the symptoms of the disease, so let me explain it to you below. Let's take a look.

One of the symptoms of advanced lung cancer: facial and neck edema. On the right side of the mediastinum is the superior vena cava, which transports venous blood from the upper limbs and head and neck back to the heart. If the tumor cells of lung cancer invade the right side of the mediastinum and compress the superior vena cava, the jugular vein will initially become swollen due to poor blood return, and eventually it will cause facial and neck edema, which needs to be diagnosed and treated in time.

The second symptom of advanced lung cancer: hoarseness is the most common symptom. 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.

The third symptom of advanced lung cancer: shortness of breath. Almost all patients with advanced lung cancer that has 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. However, because many smoking patients have varying degrees of chronic lung disease, this brings certain difficulties to the identification of shortness of breath. In addition, because a part of the lung tissue loses its respiratory function due to the growth of tumors, the entire respiratory function is impaired and respiratory discomfort occurs. This discomfort initially only occurs during exercise, but eventually it can be felt even at rest.

The symptoms of advanced lung cancer are as mentioned above. I hope that when you find yourself with these symptoms, you must go to the hospital for treatment in time, and also cooperate with dietary conditioning methods and eat some foods that are good for the disease. In this way, the patient can recover as soon as possible.