Onconurse.com Fact Sheet 1 Symptoms of Lung Cancer behind a diagnostic test or exam that may seem odd on its face, and to give you an idea of the range of symptoms that lung … … may cause. As you can see, symptoms vary tremendously. Discuss any symptoms with your doctor. Pulmonary symptoms The symptoms of lung cancer that are clearly and directly related to lung function are:• Coughing, the most common symptom, experienced by 74 percent of patients• Bloody sputum (phlegm; 57 percent)• Shortness of breath ( …

Symptoms and syndromes Some very noticeable symptoms of lung cancer, such as persistent cough, are directly associated with pulmonary (lung) function and are reasonably well understood. Other symptoms are more obscure, involving organs outside the respiratory system. Still other symptoms involve metabolic systems that seem not to be related at all to lung cancer. In the course of getting a diagnosis, you may hear reference to a particular syndrome. A syndrome is a collection of simultaneous symptoms with a common cause, observed often enough in patients with a given disease to characterize that disease. The lists of symptoms in the sections that follow may seem complex or ominous. Symptoms and syndromes are listed here to indicate to you the range of things your doctors may look for, to help give some reason …. behind a diagnostic test or exam that may seem odd on its face, and to give you an idea of the range of symptoms that lung cancers may cause. As you can see, symptoms vary tremendously. Discuss any symptoms with your doctor. Pulmonary symptoms The symptoms of lung cancer that are clearly and directly related to lung function are: • Coughing, the most common symptom, experienced by 74 percent of patients • Bloody sputum (phlegm; 57 percent) • Shortness of breath (37 percent) • Chest pain (25 percent) • Hoarseness (18 percent) • Paralysis of the diaphragm, either symptomless or perceived as shortness of breath • Wheezing or vibrating breathing noises (stridor) • Recurrent pneumonia or bronchitis • Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) Symptoms in other organs Non-respiratory symptoms associated with lung cancer might be associated with pressure of a tumor on another organ or with spread of disease (metastasis) outside the lungs or bronchial tubes. The symptoms listed below have been associated with spread of disease in many patients. Unlike the list for pulmonary symptoms, the order of this list is not indicative of frequency of occurrence. In some cases, several of these symptoms might occur together. • Swelling of the face, arms, and neck, possibly with visible veins on the skin of the chest caused by superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS), pressure of a tumor on the large chest vein known as the superior vena cava. • Pancoast syndrome, caused by a tumor that presses on a nerve in the superior sulcus….

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