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Image-Guided Lung Biopsy

Image-Guided Lung Biopsy - Symptoms

The most common symptoms of lung cancer include:
  • Cough (persistent or worsening)
  • Blood in sputum (haemoptysis)
  • Shortness of breath
  • Wheezing (whistling sound when you breathe)
  • Chest pain, especially if worse with deep breathing or coughing
  • Voice hoarseness
  • Headache and swelling of the face, arms or neck (tumour compression on superior vena cava)
  • Arm/ shoulder pain, droopy eyelid, smaller pupil, reduced or absent sweating on the same side of the face (tumour in the top part of the lungs- Pancoast tumour)
  • Weight loss, loss of appetite, night sweats and/or unexplained fever

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