Extrapulmonary manifestations of lung cancer

The mortality rate of lung cancer accounts for the first malignancy. Poor prognosis of lung cancer primarily related to the low rate of early diagnosis, understanding the performance of lung cancer early, regular medical check-ups on high-risk groups is the key to early diagnosis.
Generally speaking, the lung cancer early symptoms of cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, shortness of breath and other respiratory performance. However, clinical found a considerable number of patients with lung cancer is not the beginning of the performance of pulmonary symptoms but the performance of extra-pulmonary symptoms, easily make the wrong impression, so the timing of the loss of early detection.
The appearance of lung cancer commonly available:
Abnormal secretion of tumor cells with a variety of material related to the performance: the limbs, unexplained joint pain, finger pain; appear clubbed fingers (toes), or fingers and toes were remote hammer-shaped drum; male abnormal breast development; limb pain, fatigue; edema, hypertension, high blood sugar; diarrhea, food satisfied decline, suffering from weight loss, lethargy; skin pigmentation, skin rash, such as intractable.
Metastasis of lung cancer caused by extra-pulmonary performance: such as headache, vomiting, hoarseness, low back pain, upper limb pain and so on, easily misdiagnosed as cerebrovascular accident, and so on periarthritis of shoulder.
In short, the first symptom of lung cancer varied, easy to be ignored. High-risk groups for lung cancer, such as the above-mentioned symptoms should check the hospital soon.