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What does it mean if you cough up blood?
5 doctors weighed in across 4 answers
Get evaluated: Cancer would be the first thing to rule out, especially if you have risk factors. There are several other causes of blood in sputum.
Answered 3/26/2013
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Serious symptom...: The most likely reason to cough blood is bronchitis but this symptom always requires an evaluation by a doctor because it could be due to malignancy. So, if you cough up blood, see your doctor asap.
Answered 1/9/2013
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Depend how much: If its a little bit in your phlegm then i would not worry about it. However if you are coughing up pure blood, then that is a sign of a serious disease. Many things can cause it, but most of them are bad. Tb, serious fungal infections, cancer, pulmonary embolism, arterial-venus malformation are a few. If you are coughing.
Answered 7/12/2013
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Poss cancer or infec: Lots of things can cause blood in the sputum infection, cancer TB pneumonia or even oral lesions.
Answered 6/10/2014
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