What are the symptoms of late stage lung cancer?

  Lung cancer is a relatively painful disease, what are the symptoms of advanced lung cancer? In fact, people with advanced lung cancer will feel painful like a knife cut even when they breathe.  Because cancer cells have to absorb a lot of nutrients, the normal cells of human body will not absorb enough nutrients, and patients will have poor appetite and weight loss. Some patients with advanced lung cancer are as thin as wood. As the disease progresses, the respiratory function of lung cancer patients will also be damaged, together with symptoms such as poor appetite, reduced food intake, patients’ wasting, weight loss and weakness, patients’ physique will get worse and weaker to resist cancer.  The symptoms of late lung cancer are more obvious than those of early lung cancer. Generally speaking, the symptoms of late lung cancer mainly include late local symptoms and late metastatic symptoms, and the local symptoms will be different depending on the severity of the disease. In addition, according to the different metastatic sites, different symptoms will appear accordingly.  1.Limited wheezing sound: It is a limited croup, which mostly appears in the inspiratory stage and does not disappear after coughing.  2.Heartiness: it appears when lymph node metastasis compresses or invades the recurrent laryngeal nerve.  3.Superior vena cava syndrome: tumor compression or invasion of superior vena cava obstructs the return flow, producing edema of head, face, neck and upper limbs, varicose veins and edema of upper chest, accompanied by dizziness, chest tightness, shortness of breath and other symptoms.  4.Horner’s syndrome: When pulmonary acromegaly compresses or invades the cervical sympathetic ganglion, there is sunken eyes on the affected side, ptosis, narrowed pupils, narrowed eye fissures, increased skin temperature of the upper chest on the affected side, and no sweating.  5.Shoulder and arm pain: When pulmonary acinar cancer compresses or invades the brachial plexus nerve, radiating pain of the upper limb of the shoulder on the affected side will appear.  6.Phrenic nerve palsy: When the phrenic nerve is invaded, shortness of breath and chest tightness appear, and X-ray shows paradoxical movement of diaphragm.  7, dysphagia: Mediastinal lymph node enlargement is caused by compression of the esophagus, and compression of the trachea can lead to respiratory distress and even death by asphyxia.  8, pericardial invasion: clinical manifestations such as pericardial effusion, shortness of breath, cardiac arrhythmia and cardiac insufficiency are seen when the pericardium is invaded.  9.Pleural metastasis: chest pain, cancerous pleural fluid, etc. can be seen.  10.Lung cancer metastasis: common sites of lung cancer metastasis are bone, liver, brain, kidney, adrenal gland, subcutaneous tissue, etc. In addition, internal metastasis of lung cancer is also common. The clinical symptoms and signs vary according to the metastatic sites.  11.Extrapulmonary signs: joint pain of limbs or pestle finger, polyneuritis and myasthenia gravis, Cushing’s disease, gynecomastia hypertrophy, hypercalcemia or hypocalcemia and mental abnormalities are common. 88.9%~100%.  Patients with lung cancer have severely damaged lungs and will have very severe symptoms of dyspnea. It is especially difficult to sleep at night. Although advanced lung cancer is not contagious, it will affect the rest of patients. Lung cancer patients feel like this: When breathing, the air absorbed into the throat will be like a knife cut, whirling and scraping the body’s breathing organs. And cause severe pain in the lungs. This is one of the symptoms of late stage lung cancer.  Nausea and vomiting, also with the growth of tumor can appear. Together with difficulty in breathing, severe pain in the lungs, and pain in the chest, patients with advanced lung cancer will suffer quite a lot of physical pain.  As we already know the symptoms of advanced lung cancer, we should pay attention to the specific answers to this question in normal times, so that we can detect the patient’s symptoms in time and take treatment measures in time.  Are there any treatment methods for the symptoms of advanced lung cancer?  1.Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy: the three traditional means of treating tumors, but with the development of medical technology, interventional therapy is playing an increasingly important role in the treatment of tumors. Intra-arterial drug infusion and intra-arterial chemoembolization are the commonly used interventional treatments for tumors.  2.Intra-arterial drug infusion: It sends a special catheter into the artery supplying the tumor and then injects a certain amount of chemotherapeutic drugs into the tumor to kill the tumor cells to achieve the treatment purpose.  3.Intra-arterial chemoembolization: Under fluoroscopic surveillance, a special catheter is sent into the artery supplying the tumor, so that its head end is as close to the tumor as possible and avoid the artery supplying normal tissues, and then embolic substances mixed with chemotherapeutic drugs are injected, when these embolic substances enter the tumor, on the one hand, the blood vessels supplying the tumor cells are blocked, so that nutrients cannot enter the tumor cells and achieve the purpose of “starving” the tumor cells. The purpose is to “starve” the tumor cells. On the other hand, those chemotherapeutic drugs are released to kill tumor cells.