The biggest symptom of lung cancer is a cough that gets worse or does not go away as well as chest pain or discomfort.
Other symptoms of lung cancer are shortness of breath, weight loss without any known cause, coughing up blood or coughing up mucus, feeling tired and fatigued all the time, hoarseness, wheezing, trouble swallowing and swelling in the face or neck.
The symptoms of lung cancer do not usually appear until the lung cancer has advanced and sometimes lung cancer is found during a chest x ray for another condition.
Other symptoms of lung cancer are lung infections that keep coming back or don't go away, loss of appetite and persistent chest infections.
Some lung cancers are inoperable because the lung cancer has spread outside of the lungs and the location and size of the lung cancer tumor makes surgery very risky or the person is not healthy enough for surgery.
Lung cancer becomes inoperable when it's not possible to remove all of the lung cancer using surgery.
What makes tumors and cancers inoperable are when the cancers spread too far or when the tumors become too large to be safely removed through surgery or if the tumor is in an essential organ such as the liver or pancreas and removing the tumor or cancer would mean taking too much of the organ it has invaded along with the tumor.
Inoperable cancer can sometimes become operable if the cancer shrinks enough to be able to become treated or removed through surgery.
The kind of cancer that is inoperable are lymphoma cancers and leukemia cancers which are too widely disseminated at the time of diagnoses to be treated with surgery.
All treatments for these kinds of cancers are usually through chemotherapy, immune therapy or targeted agents but never through surgery.
When cancer is inoperable it means that the cancer cannot be treated through surgery.
Inoperable cancer simply just means that surgery is not a viable option for treatment of the cancer and does not mean the same as terminal cancer.
Doctors may not be able to cure the cancer when it's inoperable but they can provide treatment that slows its growth, eases symptoms, and allows the person to live longer.
The hardest type of cancer to cure and also the deadliest type of cancer is glioblastoma.
The deadliest cancer that cannot be cured is glioblastoma as well as pancreatic cancer, Mesothelioma and esophageal cancer.
The deadliest cancer is lung and bronchus cancer followed by brain cancer or glioblastoma.
Pancreatic cancer is also the 3rd deadliest cancer which causes around 50,550 deaths.
Brain cancer is one of the worst cancers and is also one of the hardest cancers to cure which is the 10th leading cause of death for women and men.
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive brain cancer and neurofibroma is the least aggressive brain cancer.
The fastest spreading brain cancer is glioblastoma which is also known as grade IV astrocytoma which is the fastest growing and most aggressive brain cancer.
Glioblastoma brain cancer invades the nearby tissue although it does not generally spread to distant organs.
Some brain cancers are curable if they can be completely removed by most brain cancers are not curable.
The outcome of malignant brain cancer tumors depend on how slowly or how quickly the brain cancer tumor develops and how well it responds to treatment.
Brain cancer is almost always 100% fatal as it's very hard to cure.
However there have been a few people that have beat brain cancer and survived but most people with brain cancer die within 5 years to 10 years in most cases.
The longest anyone has survived glioblastoma brain cancer was more than 20 years.
The deadliest type of brain cancer is Glioblastoma which is also known as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).
Glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive form of brain cancer and has a very poor prognosis in survival.
The symptoms of Glioblastoma brain cancer include speech difficulty, memory loss, weakness on one side of the body, changes in your personality, drowsiness, vomiting and nausea, seizures and headaches.
Your life expectancy with brain cancer is between 5 years to 10 years depending on how far progressed the brain cancer is at diagnoses.
In some cases people may die within 1 to 2 years with brain cancer and others with brain cancer survive 5 to 10 years.
Brain cancer is a terminal cancer because even with treatment it is very hard to cure.
Some people have survived brain cancer with treatment but it's rare and can even come back even after having surgery.
The brain tumor that has the worst prognosis is Glioblastoma multiforme which is the most aggressive and most common primary intracranial tumor.
Even with modern therapies and treatments it is still fatal with very poor prognosis with a median survival of 14 months.
The signs that cancer has spread to the brain are.
Headache, sometimes with vomiting or nausea.
Mental changes, such as increasing memory problems.
Seizures.
Weakness or numbness on one side of the body.
Numbness.
Balance and coordination issues.
Headaches that are sometimes accompanied by nausea or vomiting.
Dizziness.
Cognitive impairment, including confusion, memory loss and personality changes.
Once cancer spreads to the brain you usually have up to 6 months to live without treatment.
With treatment you may live a few years or even longer once cancer spreads to the brain.
Once cancer spreads to the brain the cancer puts pressure on the brain and the cancer changes the function of the surrounding brain tissue which then causes symptoms such as headache, personality changes, memory loss and seizures.
The symptoms of end stage brain cancer include.
Frequent headaches.
Agitation and delirium.
Agonal breathing (gasping breaths that occur when a person is struggling to breathe)
Prolonged confusion.
Hallucinations.
Loss of appetite.
Vision loss.
Involuntary movements.
The final stages of metastatic brain cancer are drowsiness, headaches, cognitive and personality changes, poor communication, seizures, delirium (confusion and difficulty thinking), focal neurological symptoms, and dysphagia.
Metastatic brain cancer (also called secondary brain tumors) is caused by cancer cells spreading (metastasizing) to the brain from a different part of the body.
The most common types of cancer that can spread to the brain are cancers of the lung, breast, skin (melanoma), colon, kidney and thyroid gland.