Symptoms of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Symptoms of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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Malignant spinal neoplasms:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Extramedullary tumors produce symptoms by pressing on nerve roots, the spinal cord, and spinal vessels; intramedullary tumors, by destroying the parenchyma and compressing adjacent areas. Because intramedullary tumors may extend over several spinal cord segments, their symptoms are more variable than those of extramedullary tumors.
The following clinical effects are likely with all malignant spinal cord neoplasms:
❑Pain — Most severe directly over the tumor, radiates around the trunk or down the limb on the affected side and is unrelieved by bed rest. It may worsen when lying down or with straining, coughing, or sneezing. Pain can be diffuse, occurring over all extremities. Generally, it progressively worsens and isn't relieved by medication.
❑ Motor symptoms — Asymmetric spastic muscle weakness, decreased muscle tone, exaggerated reflexes, and a positive Babinski's sign. If the tumor is at the level of the cauda equina, muscle flaccidity, muscle wasting, weakness, and progressive diminution in tendon reflexes are characteristic.
❑ Sensory deficits — Contralateral loss of pain, temperature, and touch sensation (Brown-Séquard's syndrome). These losses are less obvious to the patient than functional motor changes. Caudal lesions invariably produce paresthesias in the nerve distribution pathway of the involved roots.
❑Bowel and bladder symptoms — Urine retention is an inevitable late sign with cord compression. Early signs include incomplete emptying or difficulty with the urine stream, which is usually unnoticed or ignored. Cauda equina tumors cause bladder and bowel incontinence due to flaccid paralysis.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Lung cancer:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Because early-stage lung cancer usually produces no symptoms, this disease is usually in an advanced state at diagnosis. These late-stage symptoms commonly lead to diagnosis:
❑Epidermoid and small cell carcinomas — smoker's cough, hoarseness, wheezing, dyspnea, hemoptysis, and chest pain
❑ Adenocarcinoma and large cell carcinoma — fever, weakness, weight loss, anorexia, and shoulder pain.
In addition to their obvious interference with respiratory function, lung tumors may also alter the production of hormones that regulate body function or homeostasis. Clinical conditions that result from such changes are known as hormonal paraneoplastic syndromes:
❑ Gynecomastia may result from large cell carcinoma.
❑ Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (bone and joint pain from cartilage erosion due to abnormal production of growth hormone) may result from large cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma.
❑ Cushing's and carcinoid syndromes may result from small cell carcinoma.
❑ Hypercalcemia may result from epidermoid tumors.
Metastatic signs and symptoms vary greatly, depending on the effect of tumors on intrathoracic and distant structures:
❑ bronchial obstruction: hemoptysis, atelectasis, pneumonitis, dyspnea
❑ cervical thoracic sympathetic nerve involvement: miosis, ptosis, exophthalmos, reduced sweating
❑ chest wall invasion: piercing chest pain, increasing dyspnea, severe shoulder pain, radiating down arm
❑ esophageal compression: dysphagia
❑ local lymphatic spread: cough, hemoptysis, stridor, pleural effusion
❑ pericardial involvement: pericardial effusion, tamponade, arrhythmias
❑ phrenic nerve involvement: dyspnea, shoulder pain, unilateral paralyzed diaphragm, with paradoxical motion
❑ recurrent nerve invasion: hoarseness, vocal cord paralysis
❑ vena caval obstruction: venous distention and edema of face, neck, chest, and back.
Distant metastasis may involve any part of the body, most commonly the central nervous system, liver, and bone.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Lung cancer:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Because early-stage lung cancer usually produces no symptoms, this disease is typically in an advanced state at diagnosis. The following late-stage signs and symptoms commonly lead to a diagnosis:
❑ with epidermoid and small cell carcinomas: smoker’s cough, hoarseness, wheezing, dyspnea, hemoptysis, and chest pain
❑ with adenocarcinoma and large cell carcinoma: fever, weakness, weight loss, anorexia, and shoulder pain.
Besides their obvious interference with respiratory function, lung tumors may also alter the production of hormones that regulate body function or homeostasis. Clinical conditions that result from such changes are known as hormonal paraneoplastic syndromes:
❑ Gynecomastia may result from large cell carcinoma.
❑ Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (bone and joint pain from cartilage erosion due to abnormal production of growth hormone) may result from large cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma.
❑ Cushing’s and carcinoid syndromes may result from small cell carcinoma.
❑ Hypercalcemia may result from epidermoid tumors.
Metastatic signs and symptoms vary greatly, depending on the effect of tumors on intrathoracic and distant structures:
❑ bronchial obstruction: hemoptysis, atelectasis, pneumonitis, and dyspnea
❑ recurrent nerve invasion: hoarseness and vocal cord paralysis
❑ chest wall invasion: piercing chest pain; increasing dyspnea; and severe shoulder pain, radiating down the arm
❑ local lymphatic spread: cough, hemoptysis, stridor, and pleural effusion
❑ phrenic nerve involvement: dyspnea; shoulder pain; and unilateral paralyzed diaphragm, with paradoxical motion
❑ esophageal compression: dysphagia
❑ vena caval obstruction: venous distention and edema of the face, neck, chest, or back
❑ pericardial involvement: pericardial effusion, tamponade, and arrhythmias
❑ cervical thoracic sympathetic nerve involvement: miosis, ptosis, exophthalmos, and reduced sweating.
Distant metastasis may involve any part of the body, most commonly the central nervous system, liver, and bone.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
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Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer may vary on an individual basis for each patient.
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