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Can lung cancer be diagnosed on behalf of persistent cough?
My father is a heavy smoker. He smoked for all his adult life and he never stopped. In the last few weeks he started to have persistent cough attacks. Can those attacks be the first sign of lung cancer?
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Answers (2) to: "Can lung cancer be diagnosed on behalf of persistent cough?"
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Chronic cough can be the first symptom of lung cancer. It will usually be cough accompanied with bloody sputum. In addition, lung cancer will probably cause a wight loss. If your father has those characteristics you should go to your GP.
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Smoking can damage the lung in many ways. The fact that someone that is a smoker is suffering from chronic cough doesn't mean that he is suffering from lung cancer. To get a cretin diagnosis you will have to do a chest X-ray.
here is a X-ray with the lesion that might be an actual lung cancer
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