Symptoms of lung cancer patients before death

Update Date: 2024-02-22 Source: Network

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The symptoms of lung cancer patients before death: chest pain, most of lung cancer patients with intrathoracic regional dissemination have chest pain symptoms. There are also some patients with dyspnea, shortness of breath, tumor compression of the airway or produce a large number of pleural effusion, dyspnea.

The symptoms of lung cancer patients before death: edema of face and neck. If the tumor invades the right side of mediastinum and oppresses the superior vena cava, the reflux of superior vena cava is blocked, resulting in congestion and varicose veins of face, neck and upper limb.

Lung cancer patients with terminal symptoms: weight loss, emaciation is one of the most common symptoms of advanced malignant tumor. In patients with advanced stage, loss of appetite due to tumor toxin and consumption, combined with infection and pain can cause emaciation or cachexia; symptoms caused by distant metastasis of lung cancer, such as pain due to bone metastasis, headache, vertigo, weakness of one limb caused by brain metastasis, etc.

matters needing attention

Lung cancer patients with terminal symptoms, but also some patients with hoarseness, because the tumor directly invades the recurrent laryngeal nerve or metastasis to the mediastinal lymph nodes, thereby compressing the recurrent laryngeal nerve, can lead to hoarseness. So once you find something wrong with the sound, you should go to the hospital in time.