What Are The Symptoms Of Lung Cancer?

Typically, the symptoms associated with lung cancer may include the following:

• A noticeable shortness of breath (Dyspnea)
• The coughing up of blood (Hemoptysis)
• Abdominal pain
• Noticeable chest-pain that may range from mild, to moderate, to extreme
• A noticeable change in the patient’s voice, such as hoarseness
• Problems swallowing
• Weight loss that may range from mild, to moderate, to extreme
• Tiredness and fatigue that may range from mild, to moderate, to extreme
• Nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite
• Bone pain
• Fever
• Muscular weakness throughout the body (caused by auto-antibodies)
• Increased perspiration (resulting from the invasion of tumors into the sympathetic nervous system)
• Pneumonia (which can result when the cancer spreads to the patient’s airways, causing breathing problems that lead to the build-up of secretions behind the blockage)
• Problems with the muscles of the eyes (resulting from the invasion of tumors into the sympathetic nervous system)
• Muscular weakness in the hands (caused by tumor-invasion of the brachial plexus)