Friday, July 24, 2009

Type Of Lung Cancer Symptoms

By Anne Durrell

Even though when you are diagnosed with the disease, you will likely not have any symptoms of lung cancer.

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

However, overall most people will have some symptoms. Usually, though, even when 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

* Breathlessness

* A cough that gets worse

* Wheezing

* Roughness

* Reoccurrence of acute respiratory

It is easy 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.

A doctor will be more likely to grant that request then he would if you were asking for a more extensive test.

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

Usually a doctor will be willing to consider his patient concerns, and this will allow you to an early lung cancer diagnosis as well as may just be what you need.

Another thing to watch for which are related to the lung cancer symptoms included the following things are a result of cancer cells inside your body.

* Cancer usually present in bones, liver, adrenal, or brain.

* Extra tissue under the fingernails

* New bone growth in the legs or arms

* Anemia

* Weak muscle

* Skin rashes

* Blood with high calcium levels

* Very low sodium levels in the blood.

* Brain degeneration

* Weight loss

* Fatigue

It is not easy to diagnose any type of cancer, but it is even harder to diagnose the type of cancer with the confusing symptoms. - 14130

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