What are the early symptoms of lung cancer

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Recently I lived with my cousin and found that she coughed a lot and couldn't stop it for a long time. My cousin thought she had a cold, so she didn't pay much attention to it. She didn't think something was wrong until she came out to pick her up today. When I accompanied her to the hospital for examination, I knew that she had lung cancer. There were many kinds of symptoms in the early stage of lung cancer. Let me tell you about the early symptoms of lung cancer.

What are the early symptoms of lung cancer

Symptom 1: cough is the earliest and most common symptom of lung cancer patients. As the onset is often similar to a cold or bronchitis, it is easy to be ignored. Therefore, people without chronic respiratory diseases in the past, especially those over 40 years old, should be alert to the possibility of lung cancer after active treatment and cough for more than three weeks. Most lung cancer patients will cough symptoms, so if the patient cough, go to the hospital to check.

Symptom 2: hemoptysis is the second common symptom of lung cancer. It is often caused by the invasion of bronchial mucosa by cancer tissue. The amount of hemoptysis is generally small, often bloody sputum, lasting for weeks, months or intermittent attack. Because the amount of hemoptysis is small or appears intermittently, it is easy to be neglected. In fact, more than middle-aged blood sputum, about 1 / 4 caused by lung cancer. Therefore, when there is unknown cause of phlegm and blood, do not be careless. There are many kinds of diseases will appear hemoptysis symptoms, once hemoptysis symptoms, immediately go to the hospital.

Symptom 3: chest pain accounts for more than half of lung cancer patients, especially peripheral lung cancer, chest pain can be the first symptom. That's because the cancer infiltrates the pleura. Chest pain is often fixed in the lesion site, and in the early stage, it is often intermittent dull pain and discomfort. It can be aggravated by postural changes, deep breathing and coughing. Therefore, if there is chest pain in the fixed position due to unknown reasons, the corresponding examination should be carried out as soon as possible. Generally speaking, many lung cancer patients may have chest pain in the early stage.

matters needing attention

When patients with lung cancer have no dysphagia, they should choose their food freely. Without affecting the treatment, they should eat more protein and carbohydrate rich food to improve the quality of diet and create good conditions for surgery. If the nutritional status is poor, it is difficult to tolerate surgical trauma, postoperative healing is slow, easy to infection, which is not conducive to surgical rehabilitation. In daily life, lung cancer patients can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, but it may be difficult to swallow food in the late stage. Family members must be prepared to prepare more easy to swallow food for patients.