Symptoms of advanced lung cancer
By admin • Feb 13th, 2009 • Category: Lung CancerLung cancer patients with advanced symptoms would not the same physique and have a certain degree of difference between the advanced lung cancer when the disease is relatively serious, the need for timely symptomatic treatment, what are the symptoms of advanced lung cancer? Why do these symptoms? Is there any way to alleviate the adverse symptoms? The following when Introduce simple lines.
In advanced lung cancer, if cancer and mediastinal invasion, the following symptoms may occur, it is regrettable that they make more after the emergence of relatively poor.
1, lung cancer pain
Pain in patients with advanced lung cancer are often shown symptoms of lung cancer patients in advanced stage why it is mostly pain? Chest is a very complex space, the lung surface by three-quarters of the region around the chest wall, it is by a thin endometrium (wall pleural layer), fat, muscle, ribs, and skin under the conditions of different composition. Tumor invasion and above any part will cause pain.Most have taken place and therefore the regional spread of intrathoracic lung cancer patients have chest pain symptoms. Enveloping the top of the lung, that is, place the apex, forming a wall of a special region. From the neck, the dominant upper extremity sensory and motor nerve fibers in this area have been entering the upper limb. Thus, if the tumor invaded this area are often affected side upper limb pain, fatigue. This so-called “Pancoast cancer”, or the groove of a lung cancer as often as the main symptoms of shoulder pain. This pain is often necessary in order to alleviate the analgesic. Such patients are usually vulnerable to being sent to plastic surgeons or general practitioners deal with nerves, which lost the chance of early diagnosis.
2, the voice hoarse are one of the symptoms of advanced lung cancer. Control function of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve pronunciation downlink from neck to chest, heart, great vessels to bypass the line back up to the throat, which dominated the left side of organs of speech. Therefore, if the tumor invasion and mediastinal left, so that recurrent laryngeal nerve by oppression, have given rise to hoarseness, but no pharyngodynia and other upper respiratory tract infection symptoms.
3, face, neck edema symptoms of advanced lung cancer is more common in the mediastinum have the right superior vena cava, it will come from the upper limbs and head and neck back to the heart of blood transfusion. the tumor invasion and mediastinal oppression right superior vena cava, jugular vein will initially poor due to reflux and crack, finally also lead to face, and neck edema, which requires timely diagnosis and treatment.
4, shortness of breath, pleural effusion of advanced lung cancer are also symptoms of performance. Ultimately, the regional spread of lung cancer occurred in almost all patients with varying degrees of shortness of breath. Produced by the lung and the normal myocardial tissue fluid from the middle of the chest lymph nodes back to liquid. If these lymph nodes were tumor obstruction, the tissue fluid to accumulate in the formation of pericardial pericardial effusion or accumulate in the chest cavity formation of pleural effusion. Above two situations may also lead to shortness of breath. However, many smoking patients with varying degrees of chronic lung disease, shortness of breath which brought about certain difficulties in the differential.
In addition, as part of the lung tissue due to tumor has long lost respiratory function, so that respiratory function impairment is a result of respiratory discomfort, this discomfort only in the movement initially generated, and ultimately even when they feel the rest.
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