What are the first symptoms of lung cancer?

Answer 1

Lung cancer can show its nasty head in a variety of ways.
1. Coughing or feeling of tightness in the chest.
2. Fractures of the bony skeleton because it gets to the bones before you know you have it. Example a broken leg which turns up to be malignant r/t lung ca
3. Seizure,because you get brain mets before you realize you have cancer
4. Hoarseness because it gets into your throat or pharnyx before you realize what is going on
5.Unexplained pain in your back, chest or shoulders because the cancer has metastesized to the pleura of your lung
6. Shortness of breath related to a huge pleural effusion in your chest which shows malignant cells.
7. Headache because the tumor growing in your lungs has spread to your brain and is causing a pressure headache and is about to herniate your brain.

Answer 2

Very often, lung cancer is asymptomatic for a long time. One sign that physicians look for is "clubbing" of the nails of the hands, where they get rather plump and rounded. Often this is the ONLY sign of lung cancer, but it can also be found in many other pulmonary diseases, so don't jump to any conclusions should you have it.

In addition to a slight but persistent cought, recurrent hiccups may also be present, if the lung cancer starts centrally and is bothering the phrenic nerve

Answer 3

Lung cancer may be asymptomatic for a long time. Initial symptoms may include coughing particularly cough with blood, chest pain that gets worse with breathing and shortness of breath.