While the former presenter of the 1 p.m. news from TF1 Jean-Pierre Pernaut has just announced that he has lung cancer, Why doctor offers you, with the help of the new collective “Together we lungs”, a series to know everything about this disease. Today, focus on its symptoms, which often go unnoticed.
- With the desire to improve patient care through early detection of lung cancer, the collective “Together we lungs” was newly formed.
- Its ambition is to eliminate lung cancer as a cause of death.
Not very specific, the symptoms of lung cancer are sometimes difficult to spot, which often delays the management of the disease and reduces the chances of recovery.
The most common symptoms
Here are the bodily manifestations that should alert and encourage you to consult your doctor:
– appearance or aggravation of a cough of chronic bronchitis;
– bloody sputum (hemoptysis);
– difficulty breathing (dyspnea or shortness of breath), excluding proven heart problems;
– recurrent lung infection (bronchitis or pneumonia);
– significant acute or chronic pain (such as a stitch in the side evoking muscle tearing, shoulder pain evoking rheumatism);
– unusual and persistent fatigue;
– loss of appetite and weight.
Rare warning signs
“The most common symptoms of lung cancer are respiratory and unexplained alteration of general condition”, summarizes the collective Together we lungs. “A change in the voice, wheezing, difficulty swallowing or breathing, swelling of the face and neck, repetitive pain from the neck to the arm are also warning signs, even if they are less frequent”, add the experts.
These conditions vary depending on the person and the form of lung cancer developed. There are two major histological types of lung cancer. Non-small cell lung cancers, which account for nearly 89% of cases, and small cell lung cancers, which make up nearly 11% of diagnoses.
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