What are the Early Symptoms of Lung Cancer?
This disease can often be difficult to diagnose early because the first symptoms of lung cancer are often subtle, and when they do occur in a more severe form, it is too late because by then the disease has usually progressed to advanced stages. In fact, it has been observed that in one-fourth of the cases where lung cancer has been diagnosed there have been no symptoms whatsoever, and it is usually identified due to an x-ray of the chest taken for some other reason. The rest of the three-fourths of the people do experience early lung cancer symptoms, some of which are: a persistent cough that becomes worse over time; coughing up sputum with blood, known as hemoptysis; pain in the chest; and shortness of breath, hoarseness, and wheezing; constant feeling of fatigue; unintentional loss of weight; appetite loss; swelling of the neck and face; persistent problems with pneumonia and bronchitis. Some of the other symptoms of lung cancer are: difficulties in swallowing; abnormalities of the
