Symptoms of local chest metastasis of lung cancer
1. harsh
If you suddenly have unexplained hoarseness, and you are an old smoker for many years, you also have symptoms such as cough, so be careful. It may be lung cancer, lung cancer infiltrates and develops in the lung or local lymph node metastasis, which compresses the left recurrent laryngeal nerve and causes vocal cord paralysis. In general, the position of the right recurrent laryngeal nerve is high, which may appear when the lymph nodes in the right upper mediastinum metastasize.
2. Difficulty in swallowing
For patients with lung cancer, if dysphagia occurs, we should be alert to the possibility that lung cancer may invade or metastasize to lymph nodes and oppress the esophagus.
3. Superior vena cava syndrome
The so-called superior vena cava syndrome refers to edema of face, neck and upper limbs and varicose veins of upper chest wall. This is because lung cancer or lymph node metastasis directly oppresses the chest and invades the superior vena cava, resulting in poor reflux of the superior vena cava.
Keep burping
If a patient with lung cancer burps, it can be divided into several situations: if he is undergoing chemotherapy, it may be that hormones or chemotherapy drugs have affected the phrenic nerve. If you don't do chemotherapy and burp, it may be caused by lung cancer metastasis invading phrenic nerve.
5. Shoulder pain
If lung cancer grows at the apex of lung, it is called superior sulcus tumor of lung. Because of the narrow space around it, it is easy to invade the nerve roots under brachial plexus, stellate ganglion, sympathetic ganglion and intercostal nerve, resulting in pain in shoulder, inner edge of scapula, upper arm and even forearm. It is often paroxysmal and aggravated burning pain, which may be accompanied by different degrees of abnormal skin sensation and muscle atrophy.
Symptoms of distant metastasis of lung cancer
1. Headache, nausea and vomiting
If the symptoms of headache, nausea and vomiting continue to worsen in patients with lung cancer, or symptoms such as dizziness, diplopia, ataxia, epilepsy and hemiplegia appear, it may be the symptoms of brain metastasis of lung cancer. Of course, if you want to make a definite diagnosis, you need to do brain CT or MRI to find metastatic lesions.
2. Low back pain
When bone metastasis occurs in lung cancer, it will lead to bone pain and tenderness, especially to the spine, ribs and other parts, which will lead to low back pain and pathological fractures. It may also invade and oppress the spinal cord, causing paraplegia and abnormal urination and defecation.
3. Right hypochondriac pain
Pain in the right abdomen is probably a symptom of liver metastasis. At the same time, if there are symptoms such as loss of appetite, bloating, nausea and jaundice, liver metastasis is more likely.
4. The supraclavicular lymph nodes have fixed lumps.
If you feel an enlarged, hard and fixed mass on one side of the clavicle, it is very likely that there has been supraclavicular lymph node metastasis. This swollen lymph node has no pain. That's what the common people call it. The less painful it is, the more trouble it will cause!
5. Axillary alopecia, loss of appetite, low blood pressure and increased skin pigmentation.
If all these symptoms appear, adrenal metastasis may have occurred, thus causing the so-called "Edison's disease" symptoms.
These are some common symptoms of lung cancer metastasis. Of course, these symptoms are not necessarily lung cancer metastasis, and further examination is needed to confirm the diagnosis. You can't make a diagnosis just by symptoms.