Early lung cancer often does not cause symptoms. But as the cancer grows, common symptoms may include:
• a cough that gets worse or does not go away
• breathing trouble, such as shortness of breath
• constant chest pain
• coughing up blood
• a hoarse voice
• frequent lung infections, such as pneumonia
• feeling very tired all the time
• weight loss with no known cause
Most often these symptoms are not due to cancer. Other health problems can cause some of these symptoms. Anyone with such symptoms should see a doctor to be diagnosed and treated as early as possible.
Excerpted from the National Cancer Institute’s “What You Need to Know About” TM publication, “Lung Cancer,” www.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/lung/page6.
