| Lung cancer complications are secondary | | | | * Cancer that spreads to other parts of the body |
| conditions, symptoms, or other disorders that are | | | | (metastasis). It frequently spreads (metastasizes) |
| caused by the disease. In a lot of cases the | | | | to other areas of the body - most usually the |
| difference between symptoms of and | | | | opposite lung, bones, brain, liver and adrenal glands. |
| complications of the disease is unclear or arbitrary. | | | | Cancer that extends can cause pain, headaches, |
| The complications perhaps because of the disease | | | | nausea, or other signs and symptoms relying on |
| itself or a side effect of one of the treatments | | | | what organs are affected. |
| Lung cancer can lead to some complications, for | | | | * Death. Unluckily, survival rates for people |
| instance: | | | | diagnosed with the disease are very low. In the |
| * Shortness of breath. People with cancer of lung | | | | majority cases, the disease is deadly. |
| can experience shortness of breath if cancer | | | | The complications of lung cancer complications |
| develops to block the main airways. | | | | rely on the type, size, position within the lung, and |
| * Coughing up blood. The disease can lead to | | | | spread of the cancer. A tumour can lead to a |
| bleeding in the airway, which can make you to | | | | blockage of one of the major breathing tubes, |
| cough up blood (hemoptysis). | | | | causing collapse of area of the lung, or a increase |
| * Pain. Advanced lung cancer that extends to the | | | | of fluid in the lung cavity possibly will develop. |
| lining of the lung or to another part of the body | | | | Spread of the cancer to the bones or pressure |
| can lead to pain. | | | | on nerves from the tumour can lead to pain, and |
| * Fluid in the chest (pleural effusion). It can lead to | | | | several kinds of lung cancer generate hormones |
| fluid to build up in the space that surrounds the | | | | which can lead to many uncommon symptoms, |
| lungs in the chest cavity (pleural space). | | | | like flushing and diarrhoea. |