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What are symptoms for lung cancer?

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Many symptoms: Lung cancer can present with many symptoms, including shortness of breath, cough, bloody sputum, weight loss, fatigue, or no symptoms at all, especially in the early stages of the cancer.

Answered 3/12/2020

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Many possibilities: Lung cancer symptoms may include shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, blood in the sputum, weight loss.

Answered 3/27/2012

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Depends: Early stage lung cancer can be asymptomatic or no symptoms. Often it is found incidentally by chest xray or chest ct scan. Ct scan screening for high risk patients has shown to be effective. Larger cancers can cause symptoms such as bleeding (hemoptysis), wheezing, weight loss and other symptoms.

Answered 12/28/2016

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Dr. Liawaty Ho answered

Specializes in Hematology and Oncology

Variable: In early stage patients may be without any significant symptoms- -perhaps some coughs- and sometimes is found accidentally . At a later stage symptoms would be more significant -that will include- persistent cough, shortness of breath, chest pain associated with breathing ( deep breathing for instance), coughing up blood, weight loss, decrease apetite etc.

Answered 11/4/2016

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Several: Persistent cough, wheezing, coughing up blood, unintentional weight loss, etc...But the majority of lung cancer is without symptoms. For more info: http://bit.Ly/ygfoko.

Answered 1/22/2015

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Dr. Loki Skylizard answered

Specializes in Thoracic Surgery

Often limited: Unfortunately, early lung cancer is often asymptomatic. The following link may assist you in the possible symptoms: http://goo.Gl/vvhhy.

Answered 8/31/2018

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There are many: Symptoms of lung cancer include: coughing up blood, unexplained weight loss, chronic cough, recurrent pneumonia that doesn't clear up, chest pain, and shortness of breath. If you have smoked a lot, you are at much higher risk, but there are some lung cancers that are not associated with smoking.

Answered 4/15/2016

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May be!: Lung cancer may be without symptoms initially. As it advances, the symptoms may range from blood in sputum with-cough to shortness of breath to chest pain.

Answered 1/31/2015

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Dr. Loki Skylizard answered

Specializes in Thoracic Surgery

Yes...: Unfortunately, lung cancer during earlier stages is often without symptoms. However, as others have said, there may be symptoms with lung cancer. This link may be of help: http://www.Cancer.Net/cancer-types/lung-cancer/symptoms-and-signs.

Answered 1/31/2015

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Many or none : May be asymptomatic until late! and bad! cough, production, bloody sputum, pain, fluid - effusion and short of breath, wheezing, weight loss.

Answered 3/28/2020

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Depends: Staging, location, degree of emphysema, co morbidities will determine symptoms on a particular individual. In general, most patients have no symptoms until late. Bloody sputum sometimes occurs. Some tumors may produce hormones. Weight loss may occur with advanced stage. Pneumonia, stridor, bloody pleural effusions, horner's syndrome, chest wall arm pains. Shortness of breath, recurrent pneumonias.

Answered 1/7/2020

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Well...: Most often there are no symptoms. But persistent cough, unexplained weight loss, and a history of risk factors such a smoking or environmental exposures. There are types of lung cancer that are different... Cough, intractable, is something that often leads to a chest X-ray or even a high resolution CT scan, which is the way to find it.

Answered 3/12/2020

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Dr. John Fung answered

Specializes in General Surgery

None in early stages: Lung cancer may not produce any noticeable symptoms in the early stages. In approximately 40 percent of people diagnosed with lung cancer, the diagnosis is made after the disease has advanced. In one third of those diagnosed, the cancer has reached stage 3. Cough, weight loss, blood in sputum, hoarseness, and shortness of breath are some symptoms.

Answered 3/14/2017

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Lung cancer: Two things: 1: If you think you have lung cancer you should start with a clinic visit to the Emergency Facility. 2: What are the symptoms you have had? Please let me know how things go.

Answered 5/10/2017

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Many, varied: The common symptoms are cough, chest pain, shortness of breath and weight loss. Sometimes the symptoms are due to metastases(spread tumor). In that case you may have bone pains or headaches due to tumor spread to the Bones and brain respectively.

Answered 11/13/2018

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Dr. Michael Gabor answered

Specializes in Diagnostic Radiology

It depends: on the extent, location, and type of lung cancer. There may be no symptoms with a small tumor. With more extensive involvement, there may be constitutional symptoms such as weight loss. There are numerous non metastatic potential disorders(paraneoplastic syndromes). There may be cough, chest pain, or hemoptysis depending on the local extent.

Answered 11/28/2017

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