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Symptoms of Lung Cancer

1. Coughing, coughing up phlegm
2. Coughing blood
3. Wheezing
4. Chest tightness, breathing difficulties
5. Chest pain
6. Swallowing difficulty
7. Hoarseness
8. Superior vena cava compression syndrome
9. Honer’s syndrome: A pancost tumor, located around the tip of the lung, often induce painful compression of the cervical sympathetic nerves, causing dropped eyelid, constricted pupil, and sunken eyeball, with little or no sweat on the same side of the forehead and chest wall; feeling abnormal.
10. Painful brachial plexus compression: Patients often have burning and spreading pain from inner armpit to upper-arm areas.

Symptoms of Metastasis

1. Metastasis to lymph nodes: patients feel lymph nodes enlargement and tumor number increase. Lymph nodes are usually fixed and hard without painful feeling and Lymph nodes transferring to clavicle are deemed rather common.
2. Metastasis to central nervous system: patients often have headache, vomiting, dizziness, double vision, uncoordinated movement, paralysis of cranial nerves, weakened limbs on one side, and even paraplegia related neurological symptoms.
3. Metastasis to bones: when tumors are metastasized, there is localized pain and compression especially when there is metastasis to ribs, vertebrae, and pelvis.
4. Metastasis to liver: patients have poor appetite, pain around liver, swelling liver, jaundice, or ascites.