Lung Cancer:

Some common symptoms of lung cancer are as follows:

1. Having cough, most of the time is common symptom of lung cancer.
2. Change in the cough.
3. Cough up sputum with Bloody.
4. Shortness of breath.
5. Pain in breath and coughing.
6. Chest pain
7. No interest to eat.
8. Weakness 
9. Loosing weight
10. Roughness
11. Swelling in neck and face.

Diagnosis of Lung Cancer:

The diagnoses of lung cancer depend on the type and stage of disease. The doctor may advice for following test to decide the best treatment.

Bronchoscopy:

In this diagnosis doctor passed a flexible plastic tube throw nose or mouth and can watch inside the lung and can take a tissue sample for examine by the pathologist.

Fine-Needle Aspiration:

In this diagnosis doctor insert a thin needle into tissue and take cells for review by pathologist.

Mediastinoscopy:

In this diagnosis doctor passed a tube through a small cut on the neck, although the patient is under anesthesia. Doctor takes a biopsy of lymph nodes and then define the stage of tumor and decide whether surgery.

Thoracentesis:

In this diagnosis, doctor take a sample by inserting a thin pin into chest, if liquid is present in the chest cavity examined them. If  a large amount of liquid in the chest, doctor remove it to improve the breathing of patient’s.

Video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS):

In this diagnosis doctor passed a pen size instrument with a video camera in the chest throw the small cut on one lung and watch the chest and lung wall.

Pulmonary function tests:

In this diagnosis doctor determine the capacity of lung and preserve the respiratory by breathing test. In this diagnosis doctor determine that patient can tolerate surgery and radiation treatment or not.

Complete blood count (CBC):

In this diagnosis doctor find out the number of RBC (red Blood Cell), WBC (White Blood Cells) and platelets in the blood.

Chest X-ray:

This diagnosis provides a common view of lung and chest to the doctor.

CT scan:

This diagnosis provides a detailed view of lung and chest to the doctor.

Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning:

In this scanning doctor inject a radioactive isotope and chemical into patient’s body and about 40 to 50 minutes later, doctor observe that where the chemical and radioactive isotope has gathered. This test used to decide that where the tumor has spread. 

Bone scan:

This test used to determine that cancer has spread into bone or not.

Imaging of the central nervous system:

In this diagnosis doctor advised to CT scan or MRI that help the doctor to determine whether the cancer has spread to the brain.