{"id":12792,"date":"2018-09-20T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=12792"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:30:04","slug":"symptoms-of-early-lung-cancer-in-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wellness\/symptoms-of-early-lung-cancer-in-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Symptoms of Early Lung Cancer in Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although some types of lung cancer are more common in men, the early symptoms of the disease tend to be similar for both sexes.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Symptoms of non-small cell lung cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most common type of lung cancer in the United States is called non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Its symptoms are virtually the same for men and women and include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>coughing up blood<\/li>\n<li>wheezing<\/li>\n<li>chest pain<\/li>\n<li>a cough that lasts longer than a few weeks<\/li>\n<li>pain when breathing or coughing<\/li>\n<li>hoarseness<\/li>\n<li>shortness of breath<\/li>\n<li>frequent lunch infections<\/li>\n<li>atelectasis (lung collapse)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Symptoms of small-cell lung cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Referred to as \u201cSCLC\u201d for short, small-cell lung cancer usually starts near the central airways in the lungs and often spreads to the brain. Symptoms typically include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>weakness on one side of the body<\/li>\n<li>vision changes<\/li>\n<li>headaches<\/li>\n<li>behavior changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Symptoms of squamous cell carcinoma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another type of cancer that can develop in the lungs is squamous cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer. It can cause paraneoplastic syndrome, which includes the following symptoms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>slurred speech<\/li>\n<li>difficulty walking or keeping your balance<\/li>\n<li>trouble swallowing<\/li>\n<li>muscle weakness or cramps<\/li>\n<li>loss of muscle coordination<\/li>\n<li>involuntary movements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paraneoplastic syndrome is caused by either cancerous cells or immune system cells producing hormones (or other substances) that transform the surrounding tissue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When to make an appointment with your doctor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, just experiencing one or two of these symptoms doesn\u2019t mean you have lung cancer. But as with any disease, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although some types of lung cancer are more common in men, the early symptoms of the disease tend to be similar for both sexes.\u00a0 Symptoms of non-small cell lung cancer The most common type of lung cancer in the United States is called non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Its symptoms are virtually the same for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[690],"tags":[724,775,719],"class_list":["post-12792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellness","tag-health","tag-lung-cancer","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}