Responding to symptoms
People with lung cancer often have very long inconspicuous symptoms. Moreover, the complaints often initially seen as appropriate to the age, such as cough, shortness of breath and weight loss. Thus there is often only (too) late to the doctor and is diagnosed with lung cancer (too) late set. However, there are symptoms that may indicate cancer. Do you have some of these symptoms, and you have many and / or long smoked, leave your lungs then checked by the doctor. This kind of complaints can of course also a very different cause. It is better to be safe than sorry. If the cancer is found to be over the sooner it is detected, the greater the chance that it can be treated well.
Possible complaints (not exhaustive):
- Changed cough pattern
- Persistent coughing
- Blood in the mucus coughed
- hoarseness
- Wheezing
- More mucus in the lungs
- Nagging pain in the chest
- Deteriorating condition
- Lack of appetite
- fatigue
- Recurrent respiratory infections
- Fever for no apparent reason
- increasing breathlessness
- emaciation
