Laryngeal cancer is also a disease that has been troubling people. Laryngeal cancer also brings troubles to many people, and they all want to know about the early symptoms of laryngeal cancer. The most common symptom of laryngeal cancer in early stage is hoarseness. The most common symptom in early stage of laryngeal cancer is hoarseness. If you find unexplained hoarseness in daily life, and the symptom lasts for more than three weeks and does not get better gradually, you should go to the hospital for timely medical treatment and have a careful laryngeal endoscopy done by an ear, nose and throat specialist. Because most of the laryngeal cancers start in the vocal cords, even very small vocal cord tumors can make the vocal cords vibrate abnormally and cause hoarseness. Foreign body sensation in the throat or pain in swallowing are the early symptoms of supraglottic laryngeal cancer, but tumors originated from the vocal folds will also produce foreign body sensation in the throat or pain in swallowing once they develop to the middle or late stage. Patients and doctors should not take it lightly and miss the diagnosis and treatment because the symptoms are not obvious. Pain in inner ear When laryngeal cancer develops to a certain degree and produces ulcers and serious inflammation in the stomach of pharynx and throat, it can cause reflex pain of nerves. Early vocal cord tumor usually does not produce reflex pain. Reflex pain is mainly seen in patients with intermediate to advanced supraglottic vocal tumors. The most common symptom is pain in the inner ear on the same side. Blood in sputum and breathing difficulty As the tumor has a large number of abnormal neovascularization, patients often find blood in mucus or sputum after coughing. This kind of symptom is mainly seen in patients with suprasellar and infrasellar tumors and patients with middle and late stage vocal cord tumors. When the tumor is severely deteriorated and enlarged in size at the primary site, it may directly obstruct the trachea and interfere with breathing or make the tracheal secretions not to be discharged smoothly, thus leading to respiratory difficulties.