Can lung cancer cause chest pain on breathing?

It will.
The insensitivity of the lungs and the dirty pleura to pain may be related to the fact that the nerve endings distributed on these organs contain fewer fibres. As a result, early stage lung cancer that does not involve the pleura is often asymptomatic or has atypical symptoms. In contrast, lung cancer that has metastasized involves the bronchi and pleura and stimulates the mural pleura and tracheal nerve sensory fibres, which can cause pain.