People often overlook the cough despite sometimes it happens for a week. They might not think of severe condition. In fact, it can be a sign of “Lung Cancer”. Accordingly, it is time for you to rethink of the cough as a serious issue.
Chronic cough is not the only symptom of “Lung cancer”
Apart from lung disease-related symptoms, such as, the cough, cough with phlegm or blood, exhaustion and chest pain. In case if the cancer spreads to others area, some might have a fatigue and weight loss includes other symptoms as follows:
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- The spread to the LYMPH NODE: the patient will face lymph node extension or enlargement which sometime it might obstruct the blood vessel and the vein is usually found as a cause of facial swelling.
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- The spread to the PLEURA: This causes the excess amount of water in the lung known as Pleural Effusion.
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- The spread to the BRAIN: It causes you to have a headache, seizures, paralysis, stress and comatose.
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- The spread to the BONE: It causes the bone pain and osteoporosis.
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- The spread to the LIVER: It causes the Jaundice disease.
Moreover, some patient might have a symptom called Paraneoplastic Syndrome, such as, fever, muscle pain, high calcium and some excess hormone in blood. These signs will disappear after cancer removing. At the same time, the symptoms can return as soon as a disease starts to harm the body again.
Who is at risk of getting lung cancer?
80 percent of lung cancer occurs in those who smoke a cigarette, the more they smoke, the more risks they have including people that are close to the smokers.
Can the “Lung cancer” be detected?
As today, there is no effective method for Lung cancer screening that is able to catch the cancer from the early stage. This means we can only detect the cancer when it reaches stage 3 whereas there is no symptom expressing during stage 1 and 2.
Some studies show that frequently use low radiation for x-ray procedure especially for checking and treating disease in risk group might help detecting the cancer as well. However, there is no official conclusion on this, because the test is not precise which mean the patient might have to take the risk from an unnecessary surgery such as lung operation for parasite detection.
In conclusion, the Lung cancer becomes popular which hardly be found in an early stage. Thus, you should take care of your health well in order to prevent the disease and please immediately visit the doctor whenever you have the symptoms.
For more information, please contact;
Cancer Center, Phyathai 2 hospital,
Building A, 7th floor
Tel: +662-617-2444 ext. 4701, 4732
