In general, the lung cancer patients showed symptoms as follows :
1. Persistent cough, does not go away, even intensified ( when it was 2 weeks old ).
2. Bloody sputum, change colors, and more.
3. Shortness of breath and short.
4. Headache, pain, or fractures with no apparent cause.
5. Chronic Fatigue.
6. Loss of appetite, or weight loss for no apparent reason.
7. Hoarseness / husky.
8. Swelling in the face or neck.
These symptoms are often not too obvious. Also sometimes confused with signs and symptoms of other diseases. Signs and symptoms of lung cancer will be obvious after the attack over the years, especially when cell growth has raged. As a result, most lung cancer patients who seek medical assistance has to be in an advanced stage.
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The symptoms of advanced stage lung cancer are :
1. If you have strike a nerve can cause shoulder pain that moves on the outside of the arm, called Pancoast syndrome, paralysis of the vocal cords causing hoarseness, throat invasion which led to difficulty in swallowing ( dysphagia ), if breathing is obstructed cause infections ( abscesses, inflammation of the lungs lung ) in the obstructed area.
2. If there has been a metastasis / spread to the bone can cause tremendous pain in the bones, while cancer that has spread to the brain may cause a number of neurologic symptoms such as blurred vision, headaches, seizures, or symptoms of stroke such as weakening / loss of sensation in parts of body.