How serious is the harm of small cell lung cancer?

Do you know how harmful small cell lung cancer is? Many people don't know the harm caused by this disease, but this disease will cause the patient to suffer physical pain and mental pressure, so if you want to get treatment as soon as possible, let's learn about how harmful small cell lung cancer is!

Hazards of small cell lung cancer: The lung symptoms caused by small cell lung cancer are relatively obvious, such as severe cough, hemoptysis and dull pain in the chest and shoulders; it can cause a change in the nature of cough in people with chronic cough, turning it into an irritating dry cough with blood in the sputum.

Some elderly patients often experience shoulder and arm pain. This is because lung cancer has metastasized to the shoulder and arm, inducing a variety of pains. It can also cause lesions in nerves, spinal cord, bones, fascia ligaments, tendons, muscles, joint bursae, etc., which seriously affect the patient's motor function. Most of them will be accompanied by limb weakness or numbness, unable to lift or hold objects, and some patients can't even take care of themselves. In this case, it is very important to do a good job of removing inflammation. It is necessary to use important anti-inflammatory drugs to treat swelling, congestion or ischemia to relieve pain symptoms.

Patients with small cell lung cancer may also experience repeated pneumonia in a certain lobe or segment of the lung; patients with tuberculosis may not respond to anti-tuberculosis treatment, and X-rays may show that the shadows in the lungs continue to increase, etc., so they need to be alert to the occurrence of small cell lung cancer and need further examination.

The spread and metastasis of small cell lung cancer is one of the most difficult metastatic cancers to treat. The prognosis of small cell lung cancer metastasis is related to the time when the metastasis is discovered, the size and number of metastatic lesions, whether the isolated lesions are in critical areas, whether there are obvious symptoms and signs, the interval between the onset of the primary lung cancer, and whether there is metastasis to other parts.