These abnormalities in the body are all manifestations of lung cancer. If you catch one, the lung may be saved.
Lung cancer has always ranked high among cancer diseases, and it is the most common malignant tumor in the world. In China, nearly 700,000 people die of lung cancer every year. In the past, medical science was underdeveloped, and everyone had poor medical conditions. The level of medicine is far ahead, and there have been many achievements in anti-cancer technology and drugs, but the number of lung cancer patients has not declined but has increased. Is this really because of the level of medical care?
In fact, the root cause of the high mortality rate of lung cancer in China is directly related to his early detection.
The lung is the only organ in the human respiratory system that is unique, but its cancer characteristics are not so typical and obvious in the early stage of lung cancer, which is often misdiagnosed or confused with some other respiratory diseases, resulting in missed detection and treatment. the best time. Therefore, the chances of lung cancer being detected in the early stage are not seized, so once obvious symptoms appear, it is all advanced cancer.
Lung cancer is symptomatic in its early stages, and grasping these features may save your life
- Changes in voice
There are many reasons for the change of the vocal cords. We all know that the vocal cords will change if you talk too much, the vocal cords will also change if you have a severe cold, and the voice will also change if you drink and smoke too much, but in these cases, your voice will change after you rest or stop. It will return to normal, and there will be no hoarseness or inability to speak, but if the voice suddenly becomes hoarse and does not have the above-mentioned situation, then you should pay attention to it. This may be a manifestation of lung cancer, which is related to cancer. Compression of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, resulting in left vocal cord paralysis.
- Cough
Cough is the most common and most commonly heard, coughing when the throat is uncomfortable, coughing when you have a cold, coughing twice when you are choked on food or water, but the coughing of lung cancer is different from these, the lungs have lesions and coughing An irritating dry cough, often caused by tumor growth in the airway irritating the trachea, may be without sputum or with a little foamy sputum. Even after taking some basic medicines related to the treatment of cough, the symptoms still exist. At this time, you need to go to the hospital for some related examinations.
- Blood in sputum
Blood in the sputum or hemoptysis are both manifestations of lung cancer. This is because some blood vessels covering the cancerous mass are fragile and ruptured during a severe cough, which leads to blood in the sputum. If the situation is serious, there will be a lot of blood hemoptysis occurred.
- Difficulty breathing
Some lung cancer patients will have difficulty breathing in the early stage, which is somewhat similar to asthma, and occasionally wheeze.
- Chest Pain
Chest pain is not only caused by trauma, but also caused by cardiovascular disease. Lung cancer can also cause chest pain. This is also an early symptom of lung cancer. Usually, irregular pain is most obvious when coughing and lasts for a long time. Taking medicine will not relieve the pain. , Under the development of the disease, it will also radiate to the back to induce shoulder and back pain.
It can be seen that the symptoms of lung cancer in the early stage are also very obvious, but it is easy to confuse people with other diseases and miss the best treatment time.