Lung cancer types

Question 1

Lung cancer features

Answer 1

Persistent Cough
Weight loss
Haemoptysis
Chest pain 
Dyspnoea
Hoarseness
Superior vena cava syndrome

Question 2

Examination findings on patients with lung cancer

Answer 2

Fixed monophonic wheeze may be noted
Supraclavicular lymphadenopathy or persistent cervical lymphadenopathy
Clubbing

Question 3

Small cell lung cancer features

Answer 3

ADH
ACTH - not typical, hypertension, hyperglycaemia, hypokalaemia, alkalosis and muscle weakness are more common than buffalo hump etc
Lambert-Eaton syndrome

Question 4

Squamous cell

Answer 4

parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH-rp) secretion causing hypercalcaemia
clubbing
hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (HPOA)
hyperthyroidism due to ectopic TSH

Question 5

Adenocarcinoma

Answer 5

gynaecomastia

hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (HPOA)

Question 6

Complications of lung cancer

Answer 6

hoarseness

stridor

Question 7

What feature might be noticed on the blood tests of someone with lung cancer

Answer 7

Thrombocytosis