What are the symptoms of lung cancer?

What are the symptoms of lung cancer?

Jay M. Lee (Surgical Director, Thoracic Oncology Program, UCLA) gives expert video advice on: How is lung cancer diagnosed?; What are some common non-surgical procedures used to diagnose lung cancer?; Can waiting for a lung cancer diagnosis cause a dangerous delay in treatment? and more...

About ten percent of the patients will actually not have any symptoms. The other ninety percent will have symptoms, and these include coughing, streaking of blood in the sputum (called hemoptysis), shortness of breath, or breathlessness, and loss of appetite and weight loss are some non-specific symptoms that may be related to, or attributed to lung cancer.