Beware 5 Lung Cancer Symptoms Here Now!
According to the lung specialist from Jakarta Friendship Hospital, Dr Elisna Syahruddin, PhD, Sp.P, in the early stages, lung cancer is rather difficult to detect because without significant symptoms. Cancer parubaru could get caught when the situation was so heavy. "Most of the new patients come to the doctor after
experiencing coughing up blood," said Elisna.
In addition, the symptoms of lung cancer can vary, depending on where and how far this malignant tumor spreads in the lung organ. Some common symptoms are commonly encountered in patients with lung cancer other than coughing up blood include shortness of breath, recurrent pneumonia or bronchitis, fatigue, loss of appetite or weight loss, hoarseness, and swelling of the face or neck.
Here are some symptoms that must be observed from this deadly cancer:
1. Without symptoms. About 25 percent of lung cancer patients will know it when they perform routine X-rays or CT scans and found lesions (damaged tissue) called coin lesion. In these patients are usually not encountered significant symptoms.
2. The symptoms associated with cancer. Cancer growth and invasion in the lung tissue and surrounding tissue may affect breathing and cause early symptoms, including cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, chest pain, and coughing up blood (hemoptysis).
And if cancer has invaded nerves, for example, can cause pain in the shoulder and then spread down to the outside of the arm (called Pancoast syndrome) or paralysis of the vocal sound that causes a hoarse voice. The attack on the esophagus also cause timbulnyadysphagia. If airflow is blocked, the lungs will then be susceptible to infection (pneumonia).
3. Symptoms associated with metastasis. Lung cancer can also spread to the bone and produce excruciating pain. Cancer that has spread to the brain could even lead to a number of neurological symptoms, such as blurred vision, headaches, stroke symptoms such as fatigue, loss of sensation in certain body parts.
4. Symptoms "paraneoplastic". Lung cancer is often accompanied by symptoms called sindromaparaneoplastic, production of hormones the tumor cells. Paraneoplastic syndrome mostly occurs in lung cancer small cell carcinoma types, but can also be seen in other species.
Paraneoplastic syndrome associated with these types of small cell carcinoma of lung cancer are due to the production of a hormone called adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) by the cancer cells, as the beginning of an excess of expenditure or secretion that occurs on hormone cortisol in the adrenal gland.
Meanwhile, paraneoplastic syndrome that is often seen in lung cancer non-small cell carcinoma type is usually derived from a substance similar to parathyroid hormone that produces higher levels of calcium in the blood stream.
5. The symptoms are not specific. Looked at every type of cancer, including lung cancer, for example, weight loss, weakness, and fatigue. Psychiatric symptoms such as depression and mud changes also common.
Source: Kompas.com, May 3, 2012
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