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Early symptoms of lung cancer should be checked on by your physician as lung cancer is one of the dreadful diseases prevailing among the human population around the world. If the disease is detected at its earliest possible stage then it can be easy for an individual to get cured. Unfortunately, early detection of lung cancer is questionable as the cancer is often advanced when symptoms do occur. Sometimes the early symptoms of lung cancer may be due to the effects of a secondary tumor somewhere else in the body. The first and foremost early symptom of lung cancer is coughing up blood (hemoptysis). If you do cough up blood then you should contact your general physician immediately for necessary advice, particularly if you are a person over 40 years with smoking habit.
The following symptoms are the common early symptoms of lung cancer and also symptoms of many other lung problems: Persistent pain in the chest or elsewhere (possibly from the cancer spreading to a bone), excessive fatigue, worsening breathlessness, chronic cough, weight loss and loss of appetite, hoarseness, wheezing, pyrexia of unknown origin, chest pain, dyspnea.
Upon visiting your general physician, you will be asked numerous questions about your medical history, including questions about your accidental or incidental exposure to hazardous chemicals. Your physician will refer you for a physical examination after inception of your early symptoms of the lung cancer.
If you are suffering from persistent cough with sputum (mucus), you may be asked to give a sample of your sputum for the presence of cancer cells. In addition to this your doctor will order a specialized x-ray including CT scan or simple chest x-ray to locate any abnormal spots in your lung.
A bronchoscope to examine your lungs including airways may be used to take a sample or biopsy of the tumor. The bronchoscope is inserted into one’s lung through either nostrils or mouth. This is one of the several ways in which the doctor collects a biopsy sample after seeing the early symptom of the lung cancer.
A method called helical low-dose CT scan has been used extensively to spot small-sized cancers which can be cured easier than the large-sized lung cancers.
Once you have been observed with early symptom of lung cancer and also confirmative diagnosis of lung cancer, your physician will do numerous tests to find out whether the cancer has put its feet in various regions of your body. These details will help your physician to ascertain the palliative treatment for improving your health. An MRI, bone scans, and CT scans are the common tests to find out the metastasis stage of lung cancer. A visit to your physician is of utmost importance if you detect early symptoms of lung cancer.