What are the symptoms of advanced lung cancer? Four common symptoms of advanced lung cancer

When most lung cancer patients find out that they have lung cancer and go to the hospital for a checkup, they find that it is already in the late stage of lung cancer. At this time, lung cancer patients will ask, how can they detect the early and late symptoms of lung cancer, how can they reach the late stage without feeling anything, these are all unfortunate. Here, experts from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Henan Institute of Modern Medicine will introduce to you the common symptoms of late stage lung cancer, so that you can be careful in your daily life and pay attention to them. What are the symptoms of late stage lung cancer? Let's introduce them one by one.

1. Pain Pain is a common symptom in patients with advanced lung cancer. Most patients with lung cancer that has regional intrathoracic metastasis have symptoms of chest pain.

2. Hoarseness Hoarseness is one of the symptoms of advanced lung cancer. The recurrent laryngeal nerve, which controls the left side of the vocal function, descends from the neck to the chest, bypasses the large blood vessels of the heart and returns to the larynx, thus controlling the left side of the vocal organ. Therefore, if the tumor invades the left side of the mediastinum and compresses the recurrent laryngeal nerve, hoarseness will occur, but there will be no sore throat or other symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection.

3. Facial and neck edema is also a common symptom of advanced lung cancer. If the tumor invades the right side of the mediastinum and compresses the superior vena cava, the jugular vein will initially become distended due to poor blood flow, and eventually it will lead to facial and neck edema, which needs to be diagnosed and treated in a timely manner.

4. Shortness of breath and pleural effusion are also symptoms of advanced lung cancer. Eventually, almost all patients with regionally spread lung cancer will experience shortness of breath to varying degrees. Normal tissue fluid produced by the lungs and myocardium flows back through the lymphatic vessels in the middle of the chest. If these lymphatic vessels are blocked by tumors, these tissue fluids will accumulate in the pericardium to form pericardial effusions or accumulate in the chest cavity to form pleural effusions. Both of the above situations can cause shortness of breath.

In addition, since part of the lung tissue has lost its respiratory function due to the tumor, the overall respiratory function is impaired and respiratory discomfort occurs. This discomfort initially only occurs during exercise, but eventually it can be felt even when resting.

The above are some common symptoms that may occur in the late stage of lung cancer. We hope that they can bring hope to patients and their families. In addition, we use multi-target comprehensive anti-cancer therapy of Chinese and Western medicine to treat lung cancer. If you have any questions or want to know more about this therapy, you can consult experts and they will answer your questions in detail.