10 Warning Signs of Lung Cancer - Amandeep Hospital

10 Warning Signs of Lung Cancer

Probably, lung cancers do not show up any symptoms until its invasion into your body. However, some patients in the early stages of lung cancer exhibit symptoms, and luckily their treatment is more effective due to the detection of cancer at an early stage by doctor’s diagnosis.

Perhaps symptoms of the first stage of the disease can be by some other reason too, but you shall see lung cancer specialist if apprehensive about your condition.

According to Wikipedia, 1/10 people do not reveal any symptoms in their diagnoses for lung cancer. Further, it says, around 85% of cases of lung cancer are related to prolonged tobacco smoking, whereas 10–15% of cases suffer from this disease by genetic factors, exposure by radon gas, second-hand smoke, asbestos, or other kinds of air pollution.

10 Symptoms of lung cancer

As discussed above, it is hard to notice symptoms of lung cancer until the disease advances. Yet there are common symptoms that can intimidate you about the occurrence of lung cancer.

Lingering Cough

Normally cough due to respiratory infection or cold goes away in a maximum of 2 weeks. If having a persistent lingering cough, be alert! It can be a sign of lung cancer. Producing mucus, stubborn, or dry cough should not be taken lightly. Immediately see a doctor and get your examination by X-ray and various other tests.

Alteration in Cough

Chain smokers regularly have a cough, but if there is a change in a cough that could be by some other reason possibly. For lung cancer, possible symptoms you may exhibit are:

• Deeper cough
• Hoarse sounding cough
• Producing unusual mucus amount in cough
• Coughing up blood

If any of your near and dear ones are showing up change in their chronic cough, immediately consult a good pulmonologist.

Change in Breath

Your breath can change to short breathiness, and even you can become easily winded if suffering from lung cancer. All these changes occur by narrowing or blocking an airway, possibly build up fluid from a lung tumour can also contribute to narrowing and blocking.

Carefully observe when do you feel winded up or shortness of breath. If you notice that your potential has reduced to perform regular, more manageable tasks like you are having difficulty in climbing upstairs. Make an appointment with your doctor to clear if it is lung cancer or not.

Paining Chest Area

You may go through intense pain in the chest, back or shoulder, if suffering from lung cancer. It is wrong to associate any pain with cancer unless you feel dull, intermittent, persistent, and sharp chest pain. Make a note whether a specific area is in pain or chest pain is present throughout, although this chest pain can make you uncomfortable by chest wall metastasis or enlarged lymph nodes.

Wheezing

It is possible you feel a whistling or wheezing sound on breathing as your airways become blocked, constricted, or inflamed in the condition of lung cancer. The reasons for wheezing can be multiple, and mostly it is easily treatable and benign.

But you are damned! If wheezing is due to lung cancer, the reason doctors do not take it casually. Forbid making assumptions that wheezing is because of asthma or allergies unless your doctor clears you.

Hoarse or Rough Voice

Hoarseness can be by simple cold also, though persistent and becoming worse condition can be severe. If experiencing a significant change in your voice to become rough, raspier, or sounding deep can be a dangerous condition of lung cancer, you need to see a specialist as soon as possible. Hoarseness during lung cancer occurs by tumour affecting the nerve, which controls voice box or larynx.

Losing Weight Without Any Reason

You may have an unexplained weight loss for about 10 pounds in the condition of lung cancer. Loss in weight occurs by cancer cells that use up all energy, and also, it could be due to a change in the way of your body using power from food. If you have lost weight without making any efforts to lose it, it can be a sign of lung cancer.

Pain in Bones

Lung cancer on spreading up to bones causes severe pain in the back and other body parts. It can be your plight to give you trouble to rest at your end. Bone pain increases with movement and become worse at night, disturbing your sleep. Besides, there are less common neck, arm, or shoulder pain associated with lung cancer. Be attentive to all these pains and get the right consultation from an expert oncologist.

Headache

Every time, headache is not due to brain metastases though it also occurs by spreading lung cancer to your brain. Besides, a headache occurs by the pressure of a lung tumour on the superior vena cava, which is vein carrying blood from the upper body to the heart.

Swelling

You can have swelling on the face, arm, or neck for different reasons. Perhaps it is also possible during cancer. If you notice swelling in these areas, make an appointment with your doctor.

About Amandeep Hospital

Amandeep Hospital is one of the advanced and topmost hospitals offering treatments for lung cancer. Having the standards of level 1 trauma centre for lung cancer, Amandeep hospital includes in house diagnose facilities like ultrasound with high-resolution, X-ray lab, CT scan, and laboratory for investigation.

We make sure to offer comprehensive treatment at our intensive care unit to save the life of patients who have lung cancer. Our lung specialist doctors in India have a good understanding of the signs and symptoms mentioned above to do proper counselling with patients for their safety. This hospital is a gateway of hope for those in plight and despair by lung cancer problems to get the right treatment with responsibility by our dedicated medical staff.

If you are apprehensive of lung cancer after noticing the above-written symptoms, do not delay to meet our veteran and expert doctors. Contact us on given details; we are a foremost hospital working for the health wellness of the community to serve humanity.