Sunday, July 26, 2009

Things You Should Know About Lung Cancer Symptoms

By Anne Durrell

Most people will not have any signs of lung cancer, even though when they are diagnosed with the disease.

Diagnosis of lung cancer is often by accident and it happens when the chest x-rayed for another disease.

Many people will have some symptoms even when the symptoms are present they are misdiagnosed as other respiratory illnesses.

Here are things to watch for that could be the symptoms of lung cancer:

* Continual cough

* Coughing up blood

* Dull Chest pain

* Shortness of breath

* A cough that suddenly develops and gets worse

* Breathing problems

* Croakiness

* Reoccurrence of acute respiratory

It is not so difficult to see why the symptoms may just be brushed off as another respiratory illness.

If you are experiencing more than just one of these symptoms of lung cancer, you have to be persistent.

You can ask your doctor for specific test, for example like x-rays, which are neither invasive nor difficult to get.

If you ask for a more extensive test, a doctor will usually more like grant that request than he would.

You can just explain that you worry and believe you are at risk for lung cancer.

Most of the time a doctor will be willing to consider your concerns and this may just be what you need to get the test that will allow you an early lung cancer diagnosis.

Other things to watch for that are related to the symptoms of lung cancer include the following things are a result of cancer cells in the body.

* Cancer present in the liver, adrenal glands, bones or brain.

* Extra tissue under the fingernails

* There is new bone growth in the legs or arms

* Anemia

* Muscle weakness

* Skin rashes

* Very high calcium levels in the blood

* Very low sodium levels in the blood.

* Brain degeneration

* Losing weight

* Low energy

It can be hard to diagnose any type of cancer, but with the confusing symptoms of lung cancer, it is even harder to diagnose this type of cancer.

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