Early lung cancer, lung performance

Saturday, March 29, 2008 · Posted in

We know, Lung cancer is the typical symptoms of cough, sputum with blood, chest pain, shortness of breath and other lung performance; However Statistics show about half of lung cancer who is manifested in the beginning of extrapulmonary symptoms, and often ahead of the pulmonary lung symptoms, Early lung cancer virtually become a signal. However, as these symptoms and lung cancer seems to be of no higher authority, and help often misdiagnosed other diseases, we must be alert to grasp these signals, which early diagnosis and early treatment will be helpful. What are the main pulmonary lung cancer, the symptoms?
1, bone and joint symptoms: such symptoms more common. Because lung cancer cells may have some special endocrine hormone (heterologous sex hormone), and antigen enzyme, the role of these substances in bone and joint operation site, swelling caused bone and joint pain, often involving the tibia, Recife, ulnar and radial bones and joints, etc. ,end of a pestle-like swelling often refers to, X-ray examination showed periosteal proliferation.
2,pain: pulmonary peripheral lung cancer often backwards on the development, erosion pleura, the ribs and chest wall involving organizations, which led to pain. These patients rarely have respiratory symptoms.
3, hoarseness: lung cancer metastases laryngeal nerve compression can result vocal SBC Bi voice hoarse. Because lung cancer metastases can be there in the early days, and sometimes county metastases can be grown faster than the primary tumors, metastases may be the first clinical manifestation in the primary there.
4, nervous system symptoms: brain metastases from lung cancer, there may be headache, vomiting, sudden coma, aphasia, hemiplegia, and other neurological symptoms, not obvious symptoms due to the lungs, and often misdiagnosed as thrombosis, brain tumor.
5, male breast mast: male patients with lung cancer, about 10% -20% in breast mast, mast unilateral, but bilateral mast for the majority, but this time than symptoms of cough, sputum with blood, chest pain, gas promoting early symptoms, such as lung about one year. This is because some lung cancer cells can secrete human chorionic gonadotropin, this hormone can cause breast tissue hyperplasia, breast mast.

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