What are the early symptoms of lung cancer

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Maybe when it comes to lung cancer, we are not very strange. 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. And some of the early symptoms of lung cancer is not very obvious, a little inattentive people will think it is a cold, cough and other minor diseases, so they will not go to the hospital for examination or treatment, so later it will lead to late onset, the serious consequences of not timely treatment. So what are the early symptoms of lung cancer? Let's have a look at it with me.

What are the early symptoms of lung cancer

The early manifestations of lung cancer are mostly cough. Cough is characterized by paroxysmal irritating cough. There is a cough and unclean feeling. Generally there is no sputum or only a small amount of white foam sputum. If there is no improvement after 2 weeks of treatment, it should be alert to the possibility of lung cancer. Another warning sign of lung cancer is intermittent repeated blood sputum, or blood streaks in sputum.

Early lung cancer generally does not produce symptoms, so at this time patients rarely see a doctor, some of the early symptoms of lung cancer are just dry cough, chest pain and other general respiratory symptoms, these symptoms are very similar to cold, bronchitis and other diseases, it is difficult to attract the attention of patients. In addition to those symptoms, due to the compression of lung cancer on other nerves, most of the external signs will also show up. Patients and their families should pay more attention and see a doctor in time.

Cough is the most common symptom in the early stage of lung cancer, but hemoptysis is the most significant, mostly with blood in sputum. Therefore, all patients who have respiratory symptoms for more than two weeks and have not been cured, especially those who have phlegm with blood and dry cough, should be highly alert to the possibility of lung cancer due to the recent change of cough voice or nature.

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The above is for you to summarize some of the early symptoms of lung cancer, in fact, there are many symptoms, here will not list one by one, only said a few important, so if you find the above symptoms, you should go to the hospital in time for examination, and timely treatment.