Productive Cough

  

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Productive cough is an important symptom of lung cancer, but it is difficult to distinguish various types of productive cough that are associated with lung cancer from productive cough that can be contributed to smoking, or productive cough associated with chronic lung conditions like COPD that are often a result of smoking. If a patient who has productive cough shows changes in the pattern of cough, and is at high risk for lung cancer, the possibility of lung cancer should be considered.

85% of lung cancer is found symptomatically, which includes various types of cough, including productive cough, coughing up phlegm, coughing up blood as well as other types. 

The America Cancer Society says that the early detection of cancer is your best defense. Therefore, finding lung cancer before these symptoms appear can be important in extending the survival rate.

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