What are the early symptoms of peripheral lung cancer

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Uncle has always loved smoking, how to persuade can not quit, the results some time ago to go to the physical examination found that suffering from peripheral lung cancer, fortunately found in time did not lead to the deterioration of the disease, today let me talk about the early symptoms of peripheral lung cancer.

What are the early symptoms of peripheral lung cancer

First, the typical symptoms of lung cancer are cough, blood in sputum, chest pain, shortness of breath and other lung manifestations. Bone and joint symptoms: such symptoms are more common. Because the lung cancer cells can produce some special endocrine hormones (heterologous hormones), antigens and enzymes, these substances operate on the bone and joint parts, and cause bone and joint swelling and pain, often involving the tibia, fibula, ulna, radius and other bones and joints. The end of the fingers and toes is often expanded into clubbing fingers. X-ray examination shows periosteal hyperplasia.

Second: shoulder and back pain: peripheral lung cancer often develops backward, eroding pleura, involving ribs and chest wall tissue, causing shoulder and back pain. These patients rarely have respiratory symptoms. Hoarseness: lung cancer metastasis compression laryngeal nerve, can make vocal cord single board machine arthralgia and hoarseness. Because the metastatic foci of lung cancer can appear in the early stage, and sometimes the metastatic foci can grow faster than the primary foci, the clinical manifestations of the metastatic foci can appear earlier than the primary foci.

Third: nervous system symptoms: brain metastases of lung cancer can appear headache, vomiting, sudden coma, aphasia, hemiplegia and other nervous system symptoms, because the lung symptoms are not obvious, often misdiagnosed as thrombosis, brain tumor. Male lung cancer patients, about 10% - 20% of breast hypertrophy, unilateral hypertrophy, but most of them are bilateral hypertrophy, and this kind of symptoms appear about one year earlier than cough, blood in sputum, chest pain, shortness of breath and other lung symptoms.

matters needing attention

Patients should actively accept treatment, pay attention to symptomatic medication, usually must quit smoking and alcohol, develop healthy and good living habits, properly adjust the diet structure, pay attention to actively supplement nutrients, at the same time to maintain a good attitude, avoid excessive psychological pressure, pay attention to appropriate exercise, enhance immunity.