Many symptoms don't show up until it's too late
A simple finger test that people can do at home could spot early signs of lung cancer. Sadly, the disease spreads faster than other forms of cancer and up to 40,000 people are diagnosed with the deadly illness every year.
Experts say that symptoms often do not show up until after the cells have spread through the body. But people are reportedly able to spot a few early symptoms of the illness, reports the Mirror. According to the NHS, people can suffer from a shortness of breath, wheezing and a persistent cough with blood or phlegm.
Many of the symptoms tend to be respiratory, but there is one early warning sign that appears on your fingertips. To carry out the test you need to press your fingernails together.If you can't see a diamond-shaped gap, you could have finger clubbing, which is when the ends of your fingers swell up - and this could be a sign of lung cancer. The condition happens in stages, starting at the base of the nail, which becomes soft.
Then the skin next to the nail bed becomes shiny, after which the nails begin to curve more than normal when looked at from the side. Finally, the fingers may get larger and swell due to fluid collecting in the soft tissues of the fingers. While not having this diamond-shaped gap between fingernails doesn't automatically mean you have lung cancer, there is a possibility it's a symptom. One lung cancer patient Brian Gemmell , whose only symptom of the disease was finger clubbing, urges: "Go and see your doctor If you’ve got anything that you’re concerned about – that’s what a GP is for. Go as soon as you can.’"
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