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      LUNG CANCER- Early Diagnosis

      Symptoms and signs indicating urgent chest X-ray and urgent and immediate referral.

      Symptoms and signs suggesting lung cancer requiring an urgent referral for chest X-ray include the following:
      haemoptysis
      unexplained or persistent (that is, lasting more than 3 weeks):
      cough
      chest/shoulder pain
      dyspnoea
      weight loss
      chest signs
      hoarseness
      finger clubbing
      features suggesting metastasis from a lung cancer (for example, in brain, bone, liver or skin)
      cervical/supraclavicular lymphadenopathy.

      Symptoms and signs suggesting lung cancer requiring an urgent referral to a member of the lung cancer multidisciplinary team (either directly or while awaiting the result of a chest X-ray) include:
      persistent haemoptysis in smokers/ex-smokers older than 40 years
      signs of superior vena cava obstruction (swelling of the face/neck with fixed elevation of jugular venous pressure)
      stridor.

      Offer urgent referral to lung cancer MDT (usually the chest physician) if:
      a chest X-ray or CT scan suggests lung cancer (including pleural effusion and slowly resolving consolidation) or
      chest X-ray is normal but there is a high suspicion of lung cancer.

      G Mohan.

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