Symptoms of pulmonary metastases?

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Lung cancer is one of the most malignant tumors that incidence rate and mortality rate increase fastest and is the most dangerous to the health and life of the population. Lung cancer patients to the advanced stage, cancer cells continue to spread, patients can have a variety of complications, suffering, and even life-threatening. What about the symptoms of pulmonary metastases? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of pulmonary metastases?

Most of them have symptoms of primary cancer. There was no obvious respiratory symptoms in the early stage of pulmonary metastases. When the disease is extensive, dry cough, blood sputum and dyspnea may appear. When complicated with lymphangitis, massive pleural effusion, atelectasis or superior vena cava compression, dyspnea is obvious. Secondary infection is accompanied by fever. Pulmonary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and clubbing finger are rare. Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma can form atypical carcinomatous cavity. Metastatic breast cancer with slow growth can form diffuse pulmonary fibrosis.

Affected by the tumor, patients with low immunity, easy to be infected. When the pleural cavity is infected by pathogenic bacteria, empyema is formed, with chest pain, shortness of breath, fever, rapid pulse, loss of appetite, general discomfort and other symptoms.

The clinical manifestations are sudden regular or irregular palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, precordial discomfort, suffocation, shortness of breath, cold hands and feet, syncope, and even unconsciousness. A few patients may have no symptoms, only ECG changes.

matters needing attention

If the condition is not controlled at this time, the symptoms of advanced lung cancer will appear, which will cause great harm to the patients. We can learn more about the relevant knowledge, so as to identify and prevent the disease in advance.