Question 1

what are some of the first symptoms of lung cancer?

Accepted Answer

No until late: Early lung cancers are usually asymptomatic. They are found incidentally. When they grow and spread, then they may cause obstructiion of airway leading to shortness of breath, bleeding, phlegm and pneumonia. If it's spreaded, the it can cause pain in bone or in other organs involved.

Question 2

how would you know if you had lung cancer, or what are the symptoms?

Accepted Answer

Usuall none: Until it's too late for a cure. Weight loss and coughing up blood are the two most familiar presentations, but lung cancer can do almost anything. Most often curable lung cancer is spotted on a chest x-ray. If you are 31 years old, you're younger than the vast majority of lung cancer patients. If you need help with smoking cessation, your physician has a variety of methods to help. Good luck.

Question 3

need expert help here. what are the symptoms and causes for lung cancer?

Accepted Answer

Familiar: Cough, weight loss, chest discomfort, pneumonia, just not feeling well. Smoking, smoking, asbestos exposure, maybe radon exposure especially if you smoke, working in a uranium mine, smoking, certain chemicals such as chromates in the workplace, urban pollution maybe, passive smoking (i've autopsied two wives who died from living in smoke-filled homes with stogie-puffing husbands.).

Question 4

what are lung cancer symptoms?

Accepted Answer

Often none: ...Until the cancer is advanced, thus the potential benefit of screening methods in patients at risk. When symptoms happen, they are lung related (cough, shortness of breath, spitting blood) or related to advanced disease like bone pain or headaches due to metastases.  Also, patients can experience fatigue and weight loss.  If you smoke, please don&#x27;t.

Question 5

what are common lung cancer symptoms?

Accepted Answer

Check if worried.: There may be cough, coughing up blood, difficulty breathing, weight loss, fatigue - or no early signs at all! early testing can lead to cure in this day and age. If you've been a smoker or had significant sidestream smoke exposure - or if you work around industrial chemicals or are a firefighter, talk to your doctor. I have a number of healthy lung cancer-free women in my practice, doing great!

Question 6

what r the symptoms of lung cancer that mets. ?

Accepted Answer

Local &amp; systemic: Cancer in general has local symptoms that are the result of the physical presence of an abnormal mass: obstruction, destruction or compression of airways, ducts, nerves, bones etc. Cancer also has systemic effects such  as weight loss and sometimes the production of hormone-like substances that mimic various endocrine disorders. All becomes worse with mets

Question 7

doctors, what are the symptoms to lung cancer ?

Accepted Answer

Often none: ...Until the cancer is advanced and incurable. When symptoms happen, they can be lung related (cough, shortness of breath, spitting blood) or related to advanced disease like bone pain or headaches due to metastases.  Also, patients can experience fatigue and weight loss.  If you smoke, please stop.

Question 8

what are the symptoms of on set of lung cancer?

Accepted Answer

Chronic cough: Coughing blood up, weakness., shortness of breath--- see pcp for work up!

Question 9

what are some of the signs and symptoms of lung cancer?

Accepted Answer

Chest symptoms: Lung Cancer can present with varied chest symptoms like persistent cough, hoarseness, chest pain or shortness of breath. In many cases the symptoms may come due to metastases and these can go to Bones(causing pain in the bones) or spread to brain and this can present with a seizure or headaches.

Question 10

are symptoms of pleurisy just like those of lung cancer?

Accepted Answer

Maybe: Pleurisy usually causes chest pain. Lung cancer may be asymptomatic and just noted on cxr/ct imaging. Or lung cancer may be associated with pain, shortness of breath, hemoptysis (coughing up blood), etc.  Many disease symptoms overlap.

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