Symptoms Of Lung Cancer

Posted by | June 7th, 2010 in Cancer types | 1 Comment »

 Lung CancerThe most common symptoms encountered in patients with lung cancer are:

1. Continuous coughing or become great.
2. Bloody sputum, change colors and more.
3. Shortness of breath and shallow.
4. Headache, sore or cracked bone with no obvious cause.
5. Chronic Fatigue
6. Losing taste eating or weight loss for no apparent reason.
7. Hoarseness / husky.
8. Swelling of the face or neck.

Symptoms of lung cancer is generally not so subtle, so that most lung cancer patients who seek medical help are already in an advanced stage.early-stage cases / early often found accidentally when someone doing a routine health examination.

Some procedures that can facilitate the diagnosis of lung cancer include X-ray images, Thoracic CT Scan, Fine Needle Biopsy, Bronchoscopy, and USG Abdomen.

Lung cancer treatment can be done in ways such as

1. Surgery to remove one bagain of lung – sometimes more than the discovery of the tumor and remove all the lymph nodes with cancer.

* Radiotherapy or radiation with high-intensity X-rays to kill cancer cells.
* Chemotherapy
* Drink the oral drug with certain side effects which aims to extend the life expectancy of sufferers….


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  1. Very good post you keep me coming for more

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