Carcinoma of the Lung - Primary Lung Cancer

What are the signs and symptoms of the disease?

Symptoms of lung cancer include:

A person with this disease may also have:

Sometimes the disease has spread by the time it is diagnosed. If so, symptoms can include:

People often come to the healthcare provider with symptoms of bone pain, pneumonia, enlarged, hard, mostly painless lymph nodes, an enlarged liver and jaundice. Listening to the heart, the doctor may find dullness, loss of breath sounds, a pleuritic rub or a sound caused by an irritated lung lining, and wheezing. The person's skin may be bluish, and the tips of his or her fingers may be abnormally enlarged.

Lung cancer also can cause many serious problems ranging from paralysis to heart failure.