Changes in the fingertips could indicate the onset of cancer, Express warns, citing data from the British National Health Service.
It is about the symptom of drumsticks, or Hippocratic fingers. This is a flask-shaped thickening of the terminal phalanges of the fingers of the hands with a characteristic deformation of the nail plates in the form of watch glasses. This symptom, according to experts, occurs in 35% of people with non-small cell lung cancer and 4% with small cell cancer, RIA Novosti reports.
Lung cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the lung, originating from the epithelial tissue of the bronchi of various sizes. The main causes of the disease include smoking, carcinogens, ionizing radiation and viral infection.
We will also remind that earlier the chief freelance oncologist of the Ministry of Health, the director general of the National Medical Research Center of Radiology of the department, the director of the P.A. The doctor named such discharge in urine, feces, and also from the nipples as the main symptom of cancer.
Source: Rosbalt
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